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Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (2008) situates postmodernism in a chronology of visual communication from prehistoric times to the digital age. It finds that "retro, techno, punk, grunge, beach, parody, and pastiche were all conspicuous trends" each with its own "sites and venues, detractors and advocates."
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.
Postmodernism is a term which describes the postmodernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements. It is in general the era that follows Modernism . While contested, it frequently serves as an ambiguous overarching term for skeptical interpretations of culture , literature , art , philosophy ...
Post-postmodernism is a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism. Periodization
Linda Rampell, born 5 December 1971, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish design theorist, critic, lecturer and author. [1] [2] She holds a PhD at Lund University.In her PhD thesis she deconstructs the modernist discourse of nationalist design in Sweden.
The use of digital and parametric techniques have created a new spatial organization in urban design, architecture, and design that values the organizing form over the abstract function. This is a new method, out of the modern abstractions, versus its two-dimensional projections and against its typical linearity and flatness. [ 6 ]
While the theory of combining multiple arts into one art is quite old, and has been revived periodically, the postmodern manifestation is often in combination with performance art, where the dramatic subtext is removed, and what is left is the specific statements of the artist in question or the conceptual statement of their action.
Postmodernism in visual art begins and functions as a parallel to late modernism [3] and refers to that period after the "modern" period called contemporary art. [4] The postmodern period began during late modernism (which is a contemporary continuation of modernism), and according to some theorists postmodernism ended in the 21st century.