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A review of the postmodern urbanism literature, published in 2018 in the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, examined postmodernist writing in terms of style, epoch, and method, noting a general lack of cohesive definition, and the use of questionable interpretation to form conceptual statements. The review concluded that as a ...
Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.
Postmodern literature is a form of literature ... A sense of alienation of character and world is created by a language medium invented to form a kind of intermittent ...
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 ...
The political landscape in China during the late 20th century, especially post-Mao era reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping, set the stage for postmodernist influences.These reforms, marked by the "Reform and Opening Up" in the late 1970s, ushered in an era of economic liberalization and increased exposure to Western ideologies and culture. [2]
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."
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]
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 .