OUGD501 - Study Task 3 - Parody and Pastiche

Parody and Pastiche

Parody - an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Pastiche - an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period. 

Frederic Jameson

'it is for such objects that we may reserve Platos's conception of the ''simulacrum'' the identical copy of which no original has ever existed' - makes reference to a thing being represented then that representation is re-represented creating representations of representations. This creates the situation where there's no original anymore.

'complacent eclecticism of postmodern architecture' - postmodernism architecture picked out bits from previous movements which is a form of pastiche.

'but instead approached the 'past' through stylistic connotation, conveying 'pastness' by the glossy qualities of the image, and '1930s - ness' or '1950s - ness'' - suggests that pastiche refers only to stereotypes rather than what it was actually like in that time,

Linda Hutcheon 

postmodernism is parody

'for postmodernism signals its contradictory dependence upon the independence from the modernism that both historically preceeded it and made it possible' - suggests that for postmodernism to exist it has to be contradictory to modernism 

'paradodic references to the history of architecture textually reinstate a dialogue with the past and - inescapably - with the social and ideological context in which architecture is both produced and lived' - parody's of architecture from the past then naturally link to the contexts in which it was produced