Postmodernism

Question 1

What’s postmodernism?

Answer 1

ostmodernism can be seen as a reaction against the ideas and values of modernism, as well as a description of the period that followed modernism’s dominance in cultural theory and practice in the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. The term is associated with scepticism, irony and philosophical critiques of the concepts of universal truths and objective reality.

The term was first used around 1970. As an art movement postmodernism to some extent defies definition – as there is no one postmodern style or theory on which it is hinged. It embraces many different approaches to art making, and may be said to begin with pop art in the 1960s and to embrace much of what followed including conceptual art, neo-expressionism, feminist art, and the Young British Artists of the 1990s.

Question 2

When was the term postmodernism first used around.. *hint 19__

Answer 2

1970

Question 3

Postmodernism was a reaction against

Answer 3

modernism

Question 4

Modernism is generally based on

Answer 4

idealism and a utopian vision of human life and society and belief in progress.

Question 5

Postmodernism refused to recognize the authority of what?

Answer 5

single style or definition of what art should be.

It broke the established rules about style.

Question 6

Postmodernism introduced a new era of what?

Answer 6

freedom and a sense that anything goes.

Often funny, tongue-in-cheek or ludicrous; it can be confrontational and controversial, challenging the boundaries of taste; but most crucially, it reflects a self-awareness of style itself. Often mixing different artistic and popular styles and media, postmodernist art can also consciously and self-consciously borrow from or ironically comment on a range of styles from the past.