Parodied Masquerade and “Appropriation” of Postmodern Art

• Main Authors: Ting-Jung Chang, 張庭榮
• Other Authors: "作者未提供"
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b43k75

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 設計創作研究所碩士班 === 96 === Postmodernism is complicated and collected of various cultures. Its absurdity makes traditional value of Modernism collapse, and reality is replaced by duplication and stimulation. The human role changes a lot and gets across the border in the postmodern society. The hybridization and fragmentation of a role may occur the indeterminacy of gender, and then makes the masquerade became noticed. Masquerade can be viewed as a result of Postmodernism. In order to represent who the masqueraders want to play, they often appropriated and imitated from the roles in existence. In the process of transforming an existential role, the masqueraders often insult issues by parodied masquerade, and it is also a reflection of the counter-culture speciality of Postmodernism. The types of masquerade not only confine to the gender, but also include requirements for performing, art, design, and power getting. Successful masquerade results from appropriating others visual symbols, therefore, a figure after masquerading could be recognized and understood. In doing so, how to put the visual symbols of masquerade into artworks becomes very important. In conclude, this research is about the visual appearance of masquerade and “appropriation” of Postmodern art, and the design works are entitled as “Black Fairy Tales”. Educing the representative visual elements of a role who would be imitated, and then deconstructed and restructured them to make a masquerader be well known. To accord with the counter-culture style of Postmodernism, the masqueraders in design works are parodied and irony, and subvert the gender stereotypes.