A community portal about Postmodernism with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Postmodernism is an idea that has been extremely controversial and difficult to define among scholars, intellectuals, and historians...
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A community portal about Postmodernism with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Postmodernism is an idea that has been extremely controversial and difficult to define among scholars, intellectuals, and historians, because the term implies to many that the modern historical period has passed. Nevertheless, most agree that postmodern ideas have influenced philosophy, art, critical theory, literature, architecture, design, marketing/business, interpretation of history, and culture since the late 20th century.
Read my review today on the Washington Post Web site:Charles T. Downey, New Juilliard Ensemble takes a chanceWashington Post, December 14, 2009The New Juilliard Ensemble closed out the year of free concerts at the Freer Gallery of Art on Saturday night. The program consisted of 20th-century pieces incorporating chance principles, allowing the musicians to determine the form of the work according
Chicken McNuggets and Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” urinal have one thing in common: postmodernism.The Yale School of Architecture, in association with the Yale University Art Gallery, organized a symposium last Thursday and Friday titled “Constructed Objects: Architects as Designers in the 20th century.” The event focused on the commoditization of architecture, the role of architects in outfitting interior spaces and the relationship between...
The question of truth stands at the very center of the postmodern challenge. As with any major shift in human thinking, postmodernism comes packaged with both positive and negative elements. Positively, the general worldview of ...
The Education Life supplement of last Sunday’s New York Times contained a little blurb that claimed college students who majored in the humanities and social sciences were apt to become less religiously observant after college. According to the Times, you may credit or blame postmodernism because it stresses that truth is relative rather than absolute. Small solace, as far as I am concerned....