SPECTACULARITY, IRONY AND NOSTALGIA IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE POSTMODERN ART CODE

Abstract

The specificity of postmodern artistic practices is the “double code” embedded in them. Coding is most characteristic of postmodern artistic practices, and therefore of postmodern culture, because they are formed through means that maximally involve masking, veiling, and layering of scenes that require further interpretation. Thus, the means of encoding postmodern artistic practices can include play, parody, mythologizing/demythologizing, labyrinthineness, kitsch, etc. And also, spectacle, irony and nostalgia, which we will try to consider in more detail in our petite recherche. The semantic load of the concept of spectacle today is too close to its understanding and meaning even in the times of Ancient Rome. After all, it was there that spectacle functioned as a means of satisfying “consumer needs”. If we talk more concretely about the artistic practices of Postmodernism, then it is worth noting that for them, supremacy is primarily a means of attracting attention and captivating the audience. Which, in turn, allows you to hide nostalgia for the lost true meaning of art, and on the other hand, expresses irony in relation to the deceived viewer/consumer, who does not notice the lack of certainty of content and meaning behind the external deception of the action.