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• n  genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

• If you thought feminism, postmodernism and the Internet had done away with the romance novel, think again.
• The last time a new 40 was named, in 1976, postmodernism was just revealing its jolly don's face to the world.
• Long before postmodernism, Christianity accepted unknowableness as part of God's nature.

News & Articles

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• These Six Adorable Animations Are Like Cheat Sheets For Design History
  Ever wish you had a set of CliffsNotes for design? Now, thanks to online education company Open Culture , you do. This series of short videos covers the basics of six different major schools of design. They're a fun, animated way to learn a little bit about the movements that took us from late 19th century's Gothic revival to 1980s Postmodernism, and everything in between. Check them out below ...
  June 12, 2013 - Gizmodo

Quotes

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• David Moos in Reuters
  What happens with postmodernism is that there's an emphasis on reference, on simulation, gaming and puns -- it's playing with the vocabulary of art,said David Moos, a curator of contemporary art at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario.
• Mohammad Khatami in Tehran Times
  Some people believe that the West has passed through modernism and entered postmodernism, but "the fact is that although postmodernism has made devastating critiques of modernism, it has not been able to create a new world," Khatami said....
• Moby in People Magazine
  Postmodernism reared it's messy head and the Dogg Pound posed for pictures with the HH Dalai Lama,Moby wrote. "This, needless to say, was entertaining."