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“We can get a better idea of the implications of Barr’s (Alfred H. Barr Jr.) critical model by seeing it as a paradigm a similar way to that proposed by Thomas S. Kuhn, the historian of science. Kuhn explains change in scientific theory not as a linear series of revolutions but as shifts of paradigms….an existing paradigm comes under stress when it fails to solve or explain fresh problems. A new paradigm becomes dominant when it promises to explain selected and seemingly incompatible examples which the old paradigm cannot. Barr’s view was that the existing paradigm for art history and criticism was under stress because it could not systematically account for modern developments.�
Using examples of ‘text’ an ‘artefacts’ encountered in the module, discuss the signs of stress in the ‘modernist ‘ and ‘Postmodernist ‘ paradigm caused by the impact of interactive multimedia technologies. Does the advent of these technologies call for a ‘paradigm shift’ or is......

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