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Vanessa Schuster, The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United StatesAbstract
In this paper, I propose that bringing back affect into the work of art can provide a new reading of postmodernism. In agreement with Fredric Jameson, I suggest that postmodernist art, influenced by a response to capitalism, amongst other things, evolved to the point where individuality, alienation and the self-affect were replaced by commodification and estrangement from the individual. For the purpose of this paper, I will use Jameson’s approach to postmodernism as the end of the bourgeois ego that brings with it a liberation from any kind of feeling since there is no longer a self present to do the feeling. I will use Rosalind Krauss’s concept of the grid, Fredric Jameson’s concept of the ‘waning affect’ and Craig Owens’s reference to allegory to provide a theoretical perspective from which to support my argument. Furthermore, I will incorporate Andy Warhol’s Dust Diamond Shoes and Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios as visual examples of postmodern artworks. Through the latter work, I seek to bring light to the postmodern characteristic of flatness and impersonality, and through the former, an example of an artwork that brings back affect into the postmodernist structure. Lastly, I conclude by suggesting that Atrabiliarios presents a space from which to question postmodernism’s dissociative approach to art, as it brings back affect into the conversation.
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Conference: PCAH2024Stream: Arts - Visual Arts Practices
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Schuster V. (2024) Bringing Back Affect: A New Approach to Post-modernist Art Through the Lens of Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios ISSN: 2758-0970 The Paris Conference on Arts & Humanities 2024 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 133-140) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0970.2024.13
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