The Politics of Postmodernism
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...Within the art context, parody can be used to explore questions such as “How do some representations get legitimised and authorised? And, at the expense of which others? Parody can offer a way of investigating the history of that process” (Hutcheon, 2002, p. 97), however, parody must also be accompanied by recognisable representations otherwise the irony will be missed. As such parodic representations are often blatant rather than obscure, accompanied by several ways of reading so as not to fail in conveying the irony. In terms of the feminist critique of art, Hutcheon (2002) asserted that “parodic strategies are often used by feminist artists to point to the history and historical power of those cultural representations, while ironically contextualising both in such a way as to deconstruct them” (p....
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...Within the art context, parody can be used to explore questions such as “How do some representations get legitimised and authorised? And, at the expense of which others? Parody can offer a way of investigating the history of that process” (Hutcheon, 2002, p. 97), however, parody must also be accompanied by recognisable representations otherwise the irony will be missed. As such parodic representations are often blatant rather than obscure, accompanied by several ways of reading so as not to fail in conveying the irony. In terms of the feminist critique of art, Hutcheon (2002) asserted that “parodic strategies are often used by feminist artists to point to the history and historical power of those cultural representations, while ironically contextualising both in such a way as to deconstruct them” (p. 98). In terms of self research, Hutcheon (2002) explained how parody “can be used as a self-reflexive technique that points to art as art, but also art as inescapably bound to its aesthetic and even social past....
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