Postmodern
adjective
Relating to a type of culture, art, and literature that goes against traditional ideas and includes elements of several different periods or styles.
Postmodern art often includes a mix of different styles from the past.
Often appears as...
- postmodern art
- postmodern literature
adjective
Relating to an intellectual trend involving a questioning or doubting of accepted ideas and beliefs especially about society and literature.
The author's postmodern approach to storytelling challenges traditional narrative structures.
Often appears as...
- postmodern critique
- postmodern theory
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Academic
adjective
Relating to a type of culture, art, and literature that goes against traditional ideas and includes elements of several different periods or styles.
Postmodern art often includes a mix of different styles from the past.
Often appears as...
- postmodern art
- postmodern literature
adjective
Relating to an intellectual trend involving a questioning or doubting of accepted ideas and beliefs especially about society and literature.
The author's postmodern approach to storytelling challenges traditional narrative structures.
Often appears as...
- postmodern critique
- postmodern theory
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Mashup
Postmodern works may blend traditions, eras, and styles, creating unexpected combinations.
The building's design is postmodern, with Victorian and space-age influences.
Pro Tip 2/3Irony Usage
Postmodernism often uses irony to question common beliefs and practices.
His postmodern paintings contrast cartoon characters with historical events.
Pro Tip 3/3Mix of Media
Postmodern art incorporates different media like text and video together.
She enjoys postmodern collages combining photographs with digital graphics.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Mashup
Postmodern works may blend traditions, eras, and styles, creating unexpected combinations.
The building's design is postmodern, with Victorian and space-age influences.
Pro Tip 2/3Irony Usage
Postmodernism often uses irony to question common beliefs and practices.
His postmodern paintings contrast cartoon characters with historical events.
Pro Tip 3/3Mix of Media
Postmodern art incorporates different media like text and video together.
She enjoys postmodern collages combining photographs with digital graphics.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Mashup
Postmodern works may blend traditions, eras, and styles, creating unexpected combinations.
The building's design is postmodern, with Victorian and space-age influences.
Pro Tip 2/3Irony Usage
Postmodernism often uses irony to question common beliefs and practices.
His postmodern paintings contrast cartoon characters with historical events.
Pro Tip 3/3Mix of Media
Postmodern art incorporates different media like text and video together.
She enjoys postmodern collages combining photographs with digital graphics.
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contemporaryeclecticexperimentalinnovativeirreverentnonconformanceradicalisation
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fantastic definition with this idea that we'd actually changed the global economy to help the poorest to the poor and I think it's really a reproach to us that we've moved away from thinking that big there's the postmodern definition a set of ideas that shapes power relations
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Capitalism will eat...
We are probably the largest economy in the world. And if we allow ourselves to fall into a route of the postmodern 1930's, which seems to me to be what we are doing, then that will be detrimental to the future of Europeans and non-Europeans alike.
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What is international...
fantastic definition with this idea that we'd actually changed the global economy to help the poorest to the poor and I think it's really a reproach to us that we've moved away from thinking that big there's the postmodern definition a set of ideas that shapes power relations
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Capitalism will eat...
We are probably the largest economy in the world. And if we allow ourselves to fall into a route of the postmodern 1930's, which seems to me to be what we are doing, then that will be detrimental to the future of Europeans and non-Europeans alike.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you are likeable, or at least not disagreeable, if you can strike a personal bond with the electorate, if you reassure rather than disrupt, it doesn't really matter what you stand for.
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Andre Dubus III
American Writer
There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.
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James Gray
American Director
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
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John Lanchester
British Journalist
The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
American Novelist
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
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Joel Hodgson
American Entertainer
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
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Justin Lin
American Director
Fast and the Furious' is really a postmodern Western.
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Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.
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Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian Writer
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you are likeable, or at least not disagreeable, if you can strike a personal bond with the electorate, if you reassure rather than disrupt, it doesn't really matter what you stand for.
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Andre Dubus III
American Writer
There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.
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James Gray
American Director
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
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John Lanchester
British Journalist
The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
American Novelist
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
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Joel Hodgson
American Entertainer
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
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Justin Lin
American Director
Fast and the Furious' is really a postmodern Western.
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Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.
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Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian Writer
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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