Postmodernism was a movement that was born as a response to modernism. Modernism was a movement that was born as a response to industrialisation. Modernism let to great achievements but world war one happened as well as the invention of the nuclear bomb and all of this led to realisation that those same institutions we trusted would progress us into the future are lust as likely to destroy us.Postmodernism is direct response to modernism, its does not replace modernism but it does question everything from the concepts of truth, logic, and were adopted the enlightenment era.
Modernism had failed or at least that’s what the postmodernists believed. Modernists had spent much of the 20th century trying to forge a better world inspirited by the science and universal truths. To them less was more. The postmodernists less were a bore. They believed we needed as many references as possible to demine our own individual subjective conclusion. Picasso created one off masterpieces based upon predetermined principals of art. His creation rocked the art world, but postmodernist wasn’t impressed. They believed in more than one method or style. Collage, chance, anarchy, repetition. These were infinitely more interesting. Postmodernists wanted to challenge audiences and force them to ask questions. Postmodern buildings rallied against the blandness that had gone before.
postmodernism had its critics, objecting to unnecessary ornamentation. An obsessive tendency to recycle the past to make something new and often just plain silliness. The rise of mass media really helped postmodernism take off. The world was interconnected like never before. For many postmodernism was liberating giving creative expression a dynamic, often unsettling vice. Postmodernist cinema still confuses, surprise and delights us. Postmodernist performers still bemuse us and we just can’t seem to get enough quirky postmodern art. Politically, philosophically, creatively- the postmodern movement has proven itself a force to be reckoned with. Like a giant social cattle prod compelling society to question why things are the way the are, and why they aren’t.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism