IRONY AS A INSTRUMENTALITY OF QUOTING IN POSTMODERN ART

Ali Ertuğrul KÜPELI¹ , Muhammet Mustafa Ünlü²

Postmodernism with rapid changes occurring in various areas of life since the 1960s have formed a structure with uncertain boundaries. The purpose of creating a universe where nostalgic likes are rejected and the copy of the copy is presented as reality, manifests itself in postmodernism. For this reason, the contradiction in termshappening in art arises from the instant change character of postmodernism. This situation makes it difficult to understand the actions within the postmodernist understanding. Postmodern art did not completely reject the past, and, contrary to its rejection, it was re-quoted and included in its agenda. The ironic concepts and images that emerge as a result of quoting works of art in the postmodern process are produced. As a result of quotations about visual culture, old and new concepts were turned upside down, new formations and transformation were realized. In this context, the stylistic new meanings are produced by quoting the visual sections that entered to the process of re-formation. On the other hand, it is a revealed act of expression by providing visual citation and viewer intraction in multiple aesthetics. Consequently, the use of irony as a means of expression in the production of visual culture so often results from the lack of a common language for popular culture.

Keywords
Art, Modernism, Postmodern Art , Quoting, Irony,