POSTMODERNISM

AFTER THE MODERN ERA

REMEMBER THE ‘GOOD OLD DAYS’!

Life was once predictable

Things were well structured – mapped out for us

We knew who we were – a clear identity

We had firm beliefs about the nature of things

HISTORY• (6th-15th century)-Dark Ages: (period of difficult wars)

including the lack of Latin literature, and a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and lack of material cultural achievements in general.

• (after 15th century) –Renaissance: (period of rebirth or independence)

• the revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries. The culture and style of art and architecture developed during the Renaissance.

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Modernism:•Early modern period began approximately in the early 16th century•Late modern period began approximately in the mid 18th century•Postmodernism: is a late-19th-20th century movement in the arts, architecture, and fashion that was a departure from modernism

INTRODUCTION

The Post-Modernism era came after the end of the Modern era, but it’s impossible to say exactly when.

The Modern era was the time of recovery from World War II, which started globalization.

FROM MODERNITY TO POST-MODERNITY

Modern age Post modern age• production• Community life• Social class• Family• A belief in continuity and situation• A role of education• A one-way media• Overt social control• Nationhood• Science aided progress and finding .

• consumption• fragmentation (individualism)• Identity from other sources• Families • Breakage with the past/tradition• Education for what?• Duality of media • Covert control (CCTV etc)• Globalization• Science is only one source of knowledge.

Is The Fashionable Term Used To Describe CONTEMPORARY Culture, Or The Very Recent CULTURE Which We Live Amongst. We Are Inhabiting A POSTMODERN WORLD.The Term Gradually ‘Crept In During The 1980s! Articles And Books On Postmodernism Started To Be Published From The Early 1980s

POSTMODERNISM

KEY FEATURES OF POST-MODERNISM

• Truth is relative• Consumerism is all• Transformation of the self • Disillusionment with the idea of progress

• Uncertainty• Fragmentation of social life• Incessant choice• Globalisation• The impact of ICT on social life

IT STARTED WITH POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE

Architects and their grew bored with the restrictive rules of modernism which dictated that form follow function and allowed for no decoration.

THERE IS POSTMODERN FOOD . .

A blending of culturesA HYBRID FORM!!!

POSTMODERN DANCE, ART ,FASHION EVEN MAGIC !

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•SO WHAT IS IT?• Postmodernism is a concept that emerged as an

area of  academic study around mid 1980s. It is  a wide variety of concepts which includes architecture, music, literature, fashion, technology, film etc.

• In 1980s the political climate  in changed. During this period, Postmodernism involves a radical re-estimate of modern assumptions about culture, identity ,history and language.

• Postmodernism started with architecture. It focused on ideal perfection, harmony of form and function and return of ornaments, The functional and formalized shapes of modernist movements are replaced by aesthetic, playfulness, unusual surfaces, or kitsch style.

RELIGION IN A POST-MODERN AGE• Faith could re-emerge as scientific thinking loses

significance• Religious symbols have new life in new contexts

• People can blend elements of various faiths to suit their lifestyle

• Globalisation has divorced faiths from locations and cultures

• People can make choices which are more personal and meaningful

GLOBALISATION HAS DIVORCED FAITHS FROM LOCATIONS AND

CULTURES Religion is now more universal and there are less barriers to hold people back from joining faiths that differ to tradition