in the arts, any movement that reacts against rejects or moderates the ideas of a previous movement considered modernist, often advocating encompassing a reinterpretation of classical ideas, forms, and practices
The term ‘postmodernism’ has broadly come to define experimental tendencies in the western arts and architecture after the decline of Modernism in 1945. Particularly associated with post-industrial society and ‘the cultural logic of late capitalism’, it suggests multiple quotation, cultural crossover, multicultural borrowing. Formerly characterizing the postwar avant-garde, it is now a generalized term for the knowing, hi-tech, pluralist character of contemporary society — Professor Malcolm Bradbury
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