Post-Modernism did not kill art or the possibility of future art movements—but it did make them smaller, looser, and harder to name with a straight face. Apparently, the historians and critics, intent on labeling something because that is what they do, settled on some laughable names to describe what they…
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Short answer? No.More accurate answer? Post-Modernism was the end of believing there was a single road at all. Post-Modernism didn’t kill art—it detonated the map. Modernism still trusted progress: each movement reacting to the last, pushing toward some purer truth of form, medium, or perception. Post-Modernism walked in, raised an…
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Postmodernism (roughly 1960s/70s–1990s) reacted against modernism’s faith in progress, universal truths, originality, and “grand narratives” (e.g., art constantly advancing toward pure form or social utopia). It embraced irony, pastiche, appropriation, the blurring of high/low culture, and skepticism about stable meaning. Think Cindy Sherman’s film-still self-portraits questioning identity, Jeff Koons’ balloon…
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