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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
postmodernism doesn not equal thoughtlessness. you've got wrong sources.
post modernism, while hard to pin down, is in the most basic sense that which follows modernism in art, literature, architecture, etc.
while it has many common elements with modernism, it does away with master narratives, "all knowing" points of view, absolute truths, the supremacy of reason, etc-- in other words, people got tired/disenchanted of modernism and here we are today.
in architecture for example (i trust mirror dash will correct my errors) people got fed up with the coldness & sterility of the international style and created a sort of new baroque that borrows from the past, from non-western cultures, and from anything that moves freely and merrily. of course this is not the baroque, this is not jesuitic art reaching to god in tall spires, it's like the baroque in its profusion, but not in its ideology.
in literature for example, blah blah blah-- should i continue? my point is that our era lacks artistic prophets of the caliber of bernini, shakespeare, cervantes, picasso, goya, etc.
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smart, smart post.
For literature, the post-modern giant for me is truly Charles Olson, with his ideas about history, geography, society, poetic form, the white page itself and language.
At the moment my favourite artist is Anselm Kiefer, but that's because I just received the fabulous "Anselm Kiefer/Paul Celan Myth, Mourning, Memory."