Examples of postmodernism in the following topics:
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- Postmodern painting rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction and eradicates the boundaries between high and low forms of art.
- Not all art labeled as contemporary art is postmodern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist and late modernist traditions as well as artists who reject postmodernism for other reasons.
- Postmodernism describes movements which both arise from, and react against or reject, trends in modernism.
- Its strong links with the commercial art market has raised questions both about its status as a postmodern movement and the definition of postmodernism itself .
- Evaluate the characteristics of postmodern painting, and the precursors that led to its development.
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- Postmodern architecture was a response to Modernism and a return to wit, ornamentation, and previous architectural traditions.
- The Postmodern response to the formalism of Modernism continues to influence present-day architecture.
- Postmodernism has its origins in the perceived failure of Modern architecture.
- The architect for this Postmodern building was selected by a design competition held by San Antonio in July of 1991.
- Contrast the characteristics of Postmodern architecture with that of Modern architecture.
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- Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s.
- Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s.
- Its relationship with Postmodernism is also decidedly contrary.
- While postmodernism returned to embrace, often slyly or ironically, the historical references that modernism had shunned, deconstructivism rejects the postmodern acceptance of such references.
- Distinguish deconstructivism as a seperate movement from both modernism and postmodernism.
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- Postmodernism had a profound influence on the concepts of race and ethnicity in the United States in the mid-20th century.
- Postmodernism (also known as post-structuralism) is skeptical of explanations that claim to be valid for all groups - cultures, traditions, or races - and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person (i.e. postmodernism = relativism).
- Postmodernism had a profound influence on the concepts of race and ethnicity in the United States in the mid-20th century.
- A great deal of art during this era sought to deconstruct race through a postmodern lens.
- Describe the influence of postmodernism on the concept of race in the United States.
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- Arthur Danto argues explicitly in After the End of Art that contemporaneity is the broader term, and that postmodern objects represent a sub-sector of the contemporary movement which replaced modernity and modernism.
- Modern art, radical movements in Modernism, and radical trends regarded as influential and potential precursors to late modernism and postmodernism emerged around World War I and particularly in its aftermath.
- The discourse surrounding the terms Late Modernism and Postmodern art is fraught with many differing opinions.
- There are those who argue against any division into modern and postmodern periods.
- Postmodern art comes from the viewpoint that all stances are unstable and insincere, and therefore irony, parody, and humor are the only positions which cannot be overturned by critique or later events.
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- The theoretical articulation of major women artists in the twentieth century emerged from feminist theory and postmodernism.
- Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict aspects of modernism or emerged in its aftermath.
- Postmodernism postulates that many, if not all, apparent realities are only social constructs and are therefore subject to change.
- Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism.
- Analyze the growth of the postmodern feminist art movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
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- Baselitz's style is interpreted as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective it is seen as postmodern.
- The return to traditional painting in the late 1970s and early 1980s seen in Neo-Expressionist artists such as Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel has been described as having postmodern tendencies, and as one of the first coherent postmodern movements.
- Its strong links to the commercial art market has raised questions about its status as a postmodern movement and about the definition of postmodernism itself.
- Félix Guattari disregarded the "large promotional operations dubbed 'Neo-Expressionism' in Germany" as an example of a "fad that maintains itself by means of publicity" and as too easy of a way for him "to demonstrate that postmodernism is nothing but the last gasp of modernism. "
- Brian Massumi claims that Deleuze and Guattari opened the horizon for new definitions of beauty in postmodern art.
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- Social constructionism is often seen as a source of the postmodern movement, and has been influential in the field of cultural studies.
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- Things are beginning to shift in terms of a more gender balanced art world as postmodern thought and gender politics become more important to the general public.
- Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism towards a more intersectional concept of our reality.