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Minimalism in music. Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated as Po-Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are considered to have emerged from, or superseded, modernism, in reaction to it, soon after the end of World War II, which caused people ...
Oct 25, 2013 · Coining the Term. “Postmodernism” was a term coined by Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) early in the century to refer to the last quarter of the 19th century, a time where capitalism and imperialism and Western civilization in general began to decline. For Toynbee, this new period, beginning in 1875 actually coincided with the modernist avant ...
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In Jeffries’s telling, postmodernity can be dated to 13 August 1971, when Richard Nixon held a closed-door meeting that led to America’s abandonment of the Bretton Woods policy of gold-backed ...
Dec 6, 2023 · This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Robert A M Stern and Sir Terry Farrell among them, and asks them how and why Postmodernism came about, and what it means to be Postmodern. This film was originally made for the V&A exhibition ‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990’.
When future cultural historians look back on our era – provided that human beings even have a long-term future on this planet – it's not inevitable that they will identify late twentieth-century culture as “postmodern.”. Perhaps they will call it “Cold War culture,” to capture the tension and turmoil that the global standoff of the ...
- Brian McHale
- 2015
Apr 19, 2021 · Forming in the middle of the 20 th century, Postmodern art was said to burst onto the artistic scene sometime between the 1960s and 1970s. This movement replaced Modernism as the primary artistic style at the time, and was viewed as a form of art with no standard guidelines that dictated the practice. Postmodern art stretched over two decades ...
Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia , installation art , conceptual art and multimedia , particularly involving video are described as postmodern .
