{"id":17,"date":"2010-09-22T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T22:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-09-22T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T22:11:36","slug":"mannerism-and-the-end-of-post-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/mannerism-and-the-end-of-post-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mannerism and the end of post-modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe this aper\u00e7u from Peter Schjeldahl in the New Yorker<\/a> explains why the noughties of this new millennium have been underwhelming. I want to live in the modern age, even if I have to go retro to do so!<\/p>\n

… As the Mannerists toiled in the twilight of the Renaissance, so do we in relation to the modern age\u2014the word \u201cmodern\u201d having been torn from its roots to signify things that loom behind us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mannerist pose: a Bronzino nude, circa 1545-60.<\/p><\/div>\n

He goes on to link mashup\/remix culture and other cultural efforts to Mannerism:<\/p>\n

The movie \u201cAvatar\u201d strikes me as Mannerist through and through, generating terrific sensations of originality from a hodgepodge of worn-thin narrative and pictorial tropes. Ours is a dissolving, clever culture of mix and match. We are ready for Bronzino.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But <whiny voice> “I don’t like Mannerism”.\u00a0 The accelerating pace of technological change is a given in our society, even if art has trouble keeping up.\u00a0 Maybe that’s why architecture manages (sometimes) to stay fresh\u2014there are new technologies and techniques of making modern buildings in post-post-modern times even if some architects \u201conly\u201d use them to drape expressive forms.<\/p>\n

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he movie \u201cAvatar\u201d strikes me as Mannerist through and through, generating terrific sensations of originality from a hodgepodge of worn-thin narrative and pictorial tropes. Ours is a dissolving, clever culture of mix and match. We are ready for Bronzino.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maybe this aper\u00e7u from Peter Schjeldahl in the New Yorker explains why the noughties of this new millennium have been underwhelming. I want to live in the modern age, even if I have to go retro to do so! … … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}