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The art critic Craig Owens, in particular, not only made the connection to feminism explicit, but went so far as to claim feminism for postmodernism wholesale, [64] a broad claim resisted by even many sympathetic feminists such as Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson.
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.
This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. ... Postmodern art – 1970 – present; Deconstructivism; Metarealism – 1970 – 1980, Soviet Union;
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 ]
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 ...
"Postmodernism", coined 1949, on the other hand, would describe rather a movement in art than a period of history, and is usually applied to arts, but not to any events of the very recent history. [6] This changed, when postmodernity was coined to describe the major changes in the 1950s and 1960s in economy, society, culture, and philosophy.
Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s, Irving Sandler; Postmodernism (Movements in Modern Art) Eleanor Heartney; Sculpture in the Age of Doubt Thomas McEvilley 1999; The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, 1988, Rosalind Krauss; Art and Culture, Beacon Press, 1961, Clement Greenberg ISBN 0-8070 ...
However, most scholars today would agree that postmodernism began to compete with modernism in the late 1950s and gained ascendancy over it in the 1960s. [6] Since then, postmodernism has been a dominant, though not undisputed, force in art, literature, film, music, drama, architecture, history, and continental philosophy.