The Humanistic Tradition

1. What are some specific examples of literature, art, and music in which artists responded strongly to the devastation of World War I and World War II?

2. What effect did African American jazz and film have on the movement for racial equality?

3. Would you describe postmodern art in the Information Age as contradictory, media shaped, or indefinable

4. Performance art

According to some critics, the new technology (Internet, etc.) has enabled artists to "short-cut the traditional processes involved in "making art," but still create something new." One of the most intriguing movements in post-modern art, I think, is that of "performance art" that integrates new technology with human interaction. I think "performance art" may have roots in the "happenings" of the 1960s...

What impact has technology had on post-modernism?

Reference: An American in Paris. Retrieved from http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/postmodernism.htm.

5. Art in the Information Age

Would you describe postmodern art in the Information Age as contradictory, media shaped, or indefinable?