What is a postmodern frame?

Answer 1

A frame is a way of analysing an art work. The art frames consist of the Cultural Frame, the Subjective, the Structural and the Post-modern frame. The Post-modern frame is where in order to analyse and interpret an artwork the viewer takes into account the post modern and contemporary influences and how this effects the making of the artwork and the meaning of an artwork. It is used to examine how the changing context of works can influence the interpretation of an artwork.

Answer 2

The Post modern frame is one of four frames (Subjective, Post Modernism, Cultural and Structural)used when discussing, analysing and criticising an artwork.

The post modern frame is where an artist has used a design, idea or object already thought of or created by an artist in a new way that changes its appearance and meaning or appropriates it.

It can also refer to when an Artist has challenged the ideas or concepts of the period in time (Eg. Dadaism) or when the Artist seems to create something that is "before it'stime" (Eg. Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' and Leonardo da vinci's 'Mona Lisa' both involve ideas and practises not commonly used or accepted in their time, therefore they are post modern)