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Definition of post-modernism in English Turkish dictionary
- post modernizm
- postmodernism
- postmodernizm
Postmodernizm yanlısı değilim.
-I'm not a fan of postmodernism.
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Definition of post-modernism in English English dictionary
- Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way
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- Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement
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- End of the Twentieth Century artistic sensibility/cultural mindset, characterized by self-referentially, intertextuality, derivitiveness, excessive quotation--by an overpowering awareness of what Eco has called "the already said " The advent of Postmodernism has lead to an increased interest in--and decreased marginalization of--SF
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- A style of music that consciously draws from elements of other styles
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- {i} late 20th-century movement in art and architecture (supports use of complex and decorative styles, with emphasis on local historical styles - opposed to the principles of modernism)
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- genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
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- a belief that individuals are merely constructs of social forces, that there is no transcendent truth that can be known; a rejection of any one world view or explanation of reality as well as a rejection of the reality of objective truth
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- A style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism Compared with modernism, postmodernism is less geometric, less functional, less austere, more playful, and more willing to include elements from diverse times and cultures; postmodern now describes comparable developments in music, literature, visual art, and anthropology
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- if Descartes is seen as the father of modernism, then postmodernism is a variety of cultural positions which reject major features of Cartesian (or allegedly Cartesian) modern thought Hence, views which, for example, stress the priority of the social to the individual; which reject the universalizing tendencies of philosophy; which prize irony over knowledge; and which give the irrational equal footing with the rational in our decision procedures all fall under the postmodern umbrella
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- A term used to describe the willfully plural and eclectic forms of contemporary art and design
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- A general cultural development, especially in North America, which resulted from the general collapse in confidence of the universal rational principles of the Enlightenment
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- a style of building, painting, writing etc, developed in the late 20th century, that uses a mixture of old and new styles as a reaction against modernism. Any of several artistic movements since about the 1960s that have challenged the philosophy and practices of modern arts or literature. In literature this has amounted to a reaction against an ordered view of the world and therefore against fixed ideas about the form and meaning of texts. In its reaction against Modernist ideals (see Modernism) such as autotelic art and the original masterpiece, postmodern writing and art emphasize devices such as pastiche and parody and the stylized technique of the antinovel and magic realism. Postmodernism has also led to a proliferation of critical theories, most notably deconstruction and its offshoots, and the breaking down of the distinction between "high" and "low" culture
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- is still a much debated term within the history of art When it started, what it means, and even whether or not it exists at all are all questions still asked by many artists and academics alike In general terms any work of art made after the Modernist era should be considered postmodern A reasonable assertion would be that the term was first applied to a trend in the architecture of the late sixties This new form of creation concerned itself with combining styles of past movements and allowed for the viewer to assert her own interpretation as an important part of the work
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- A cultural and intellectual trend of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries characterized by emphasis on the ideas of the decenteredness of meaning, the value and autonomy of the local and the particular, the infinite possibilities of the human existence, and the coexistence, in a kind of collage or pastiche, of different cultures, perspectives, time periods, and ways of thinking Postmodernism claims to address the sense of despair and fragmentation of modernism through its efforts at reconfiguring the broken pieces of the modern world into a multiplicity of new social, political, and cultural arrangements