Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Name: Dhruvi ChavdaClass: M.A Sem-2Roll No: 6Paper: 8Subject: What is Post-modernism?

Postmodernism:

It is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism.

Postmodernism includes culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.

Postmodernism has been applied to a host of movements, mainly in art, music, and literature, that reacted against tendencies in modernism, and are typically marked by revival of historical elements and techniques.

Characteristics of post-modernism:

•There is no absolute truth:•Truth and error are synonymous: •Self-conceptualization and rationalization: •Traditional authority is false and corrupt: •Ownership:•Disillusionment with modernism:•Morality is personal:•Globalization:•All religions are valid:•Liberal ethics: •Pro-environmentalism:

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it’s increasingly an art of gesture alone. -Andrew Eldritch

Postmodernist:

Michel Foucault

Allen Ginsberg

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