POSTMODERNISM

Post+ modernisem: After modernism

Dissatisfaction Modern

architecture

Different fromPostmodern

Postmodernism

Compact Oxford English Dictionary: "a style and concept in the arts characterized by distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions."

Merriam-Webster: Either "of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one", or "of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)", or finally "of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language".

American Heritage Dictionary: "Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: 'It [a roadhouse] is so architecturally interesting ... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock.

Historical contextPost secon war

1950 economic boom in Unite state

Neocolonialism

1960Change of

international order

Computarisetion

Green revolution

Eletronic information

Social Revolution of 1968

Consumer society

Society of media

Multinationalcapitalism

Modernisation

1989 fall of berlin wall

Cultural backgroundDeconstruction

Structuralism

Jacques Derrida

post-structuralism

Jean-François Lyotard

Exicstnsialism

neoralism

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Ferdinand de Saussure

Jap paul sartre

Heidegger

Main characteristicsRejection of

objective truth

Global cultural narrative or

meta-narrative Emphasizes the role of language

Power relations

Attacks sharp classification

s

LiteratureIrony,

playfulness, black humor

IntertextualityPastiche

Metafiction

Magic Realism

MusicModernism Continuation

and extension

Irony

Miscellane'high' and 'low' styles

Disdain structural

unity

Mixture of past and present sonorites

Locates meaning in listeners

Elitist and populist values

Music is relevan In all culture

aspect

multiple meanings

and multiple

temporalities

Pluralism and eclecticism

Fragmentations

and discontinuiti

es

Avoids totalizing

forms

Technology influence

over musical product

quotations of to music of many traditions and

cultures

Embraces contradiction

s

Distrusts binary

oppositions

ArtNew classicism

Conceptual artInstallation art

Performance art

Neo-expressionism and painting

CinemaIntertextuality

Self-referentiality Parody

Pastich

Recourse to various past forms, genres, and styles

Reacting to postmodernism

Dogme 95

Integral Movement

New Sincerity

Radical Orthodoxy

Structuralism

New UrbanismStuckism

Altermodern

Remodernism

Neo-minimalism

New Puritans

Post-postmodernism