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Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 –1990 was an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, from 24 September 2011 to 15 January 2012. It was billed as "the first in-depth survey of art, design and architecture of the 1970s and 1980s", [ 1 ] curated by Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt.
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.
The term "postmodern" was first used in 1870 by the artist John Watkins Chapman, who described "a Postmodern style of painting" as a departure from French Impressionism. [ 30 ] [ 34 ] Similarly, the first citation given by the Oxford English Dictionary is dated to 1916, describing Gus Mager as "one of the few 'post' modern painters whose style ...
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture, published in 2011, was the last book by Charles Jencks.Jencks discusses the history of Post-modernism, especially in the fields of art and architecture during the last five decades (since 1960). [1]
In 1995, the landscape architect and urban planner Tom Turner issued a book-length call for a post-postmodern turn in urban planning. [13] Turner criticizes the postmodern credo of "anything goes" and suggests that "the built environment professions are witnessing the gradual dawn of a post-Postmodernism that seeks to temper reason with faith."
New Wave design was influenced by Punk and postmodern language theory. [2] But there is a debate as to whether New Wave is a break or a natural progression of the Swiss Style. [ 3 ] Sans-serif font still predominates, but the New Wave differs from its predecessor by stretching the limits of legibility.
Other modern movements cited as influential to postmodern art are Conceptual art, Dada and Surrealism and the use of techniques such as assemblage, montage, collage, bricolage and art forms which used recording or reproduction as the basis for artworks. There are differing opinions as to whether pop art is a late modernist movement or is ...
Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. [nb 1] Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s – and that it was replaced by postmodernity, and still others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by ...