POSTMODERNISM

POSTMODERNISM

Modern

Modernity

Modernism -      Experimentation

                                Innovation

                                Individualism

                                Progress

                                Purity

                                Originality

                                Seriousness

Postmodern condition characterised by-

                                Exhaustion

                                Pluralism

                                Disillusionment with the idea of absoloute knowledge

Modernism –

Expression of:

 The modern life/ technology/ new materials/ communication

Post-modernism

Reaction to:

The modern life/ technology/ new materials/ communication

Origins of postmodernism

-          1917 German writer Rudolf Pannwitz

-          1964 Leslie Fielder

1960’s                   Beginning

1970’s                   Established as term

1980’s                   Recognised style

1980’s+90’s         Dominant theoretical discourse

Today                    Tired and Simmering

Postmodernism

-After modernism

-Historical era following the modern

-Contra modernism

-Equivalent to late capitalism

-Artistic and stylistic eclecticism

-Globalisation of cultures

Modernism died on the 15^th July 1972 at 3:32pm

Charles Jencks' joke-date