At çfeatures of postmodernism they bring together the plurality of styles, the absence of values and the typical individualism of the 20th century.
This period begins right after modernism, in the mid-twentieth century, more precisely with the end of the Second World War (1939-1945) and which was consolidated after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989).
Origin of Postmodernism
The advance of the means of communication and technological evolution deeply marks the second half of the 20th century.
With the advent of the digital age and the expansion of globalization, contemporary society absorbs several concepts and trends which will form a new artistic movement called postmodernism.
This new trend, considered by many as an anti-art, is still in force today in literature, architecture, sculpture, cinema, plastic arts, among others.
If modernism was associated with consumption, post-modernity is closely related to communication.
Main features of postmodernism
- individualism and subjectivity
- Hedonism, Consumerism and Narcissism
- Communication and cultural industry
- Inaccuracy and spontaneity
- artistic and formal freedom
- Art devoid of hierarchies
- Absence of values
- artistic nihilism
- Polyphony and Intertextuality
- Multiplicity of styles
- Combination of trends
- eclectic and hybrid art
- hyperrealism
- Approaching popular culture
- Humor and criticism
- imagination and creativity
- everyday trivialized
- Ambiguous and multiform reality
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