ISSN: 1308-6200 | Publisher: Kültür Ajans 

Karadeniz International Scientific Journal

This is an internationally refereed social science journal that is published every three months (quarterly) in electronic-based and print-based since 2009. The journal publishes four issues each year (March, June, September, and December).

The publication language of this journal is Turkish, English, or Russian.

This is an open-access journal. Therefore, all issues and articles published so far can be accessed free of charge from the journal's website.

 

Issue 9
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SOCIO-CULTURAL INFLUENCES OF POSTMODERNIST MILIEU OVER TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSITION OF ARTISTS AND ARTWORKS

Sibel KILIÇ

The postmodernist politics caused important changes in socio-cultural and political milieu has another area of influence which is artists and their works. In this work, it has been tried to analyse whether the art has been commodized through mass media and other means of capitalistic economic system and expansions ofthe reasons of artistic productions and who has been targeted to serve and the main factors which have inspired the artist to perform that particular way have been illustrated with a critical approach. In addition to this, the terminological contradictions which paved the way for postmodernism has been analysed and their effects over the low art has been emphasized, and attentions have been tried to focus on the terminological illusions by expanding on the meanings ofthese terms and concepts used which wielded manipulative influences over the political atmosphere by forming main dynamics of postmodernist approach. Meanings of the terms and concepts: “communication”, “popular culture”, “mass culture”, “life style” and “consumption” have purposefully been twisted and presented to people and through this vehicle, whilst consumption crazy societies being built, on the other hand aesthetic value judgements were weakened which in turn paved the way for a degenerate culture. In the end, the expected contribution ofthis work is; to unearth the manipulative effects ofthe concepts which have been presented to people in templates that have been accepted without consciousness. Because, the related terms and concepts are effective tools used by professional industrial culture designers in order to inject “the mass culture” by deviating them away from thenactual meanings. Thus, this situation causes its damage, directly or indirectly by negatively influencing the socio-cultural, political and aesthetic texture of societies. There existed a theoretical struggle between two dominant ideological poles of socialist and capitalistic thoughts in modem epoch, in postmodern period, ideological dimension has lost its meaning. In this juncture, the thesis ofthis work is; postmodernism is a form of capitalism which has been purified from its ideological elements. Through this work, by focusing attentions and perceptions to the actual and intended meanings ofthese terms and concepts, it has been aimed to contribute the reinforcement of mass consciousness of people for the long run.

Key Words: Postmodernism, popular culture, culture industry, consumption, mass communication instruments

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