by Francesco Bernardini

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by Francesco Bernardini
Postmodernism
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Definition

• Postmodernism is an umbrella term describing an
  artistic movement that developed all over the
  world after WWII in particular, it took start in
  the 1950s and 1960s and developed in 1980s and
  1990s
• Its name means that it comes after and goes
  beyond Modernism. It picks up some of its
  features but it turns them upside down

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Cultural Background

• Postmodernism rises up in a decentered world, in
  which the centre of the universe is no longer
  Europe
• It is an artistic movemente, since it embraces
  music, literature,art, drama, architecture

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Objective

• The main objective of Postodernism was to express
  the changing of the world after WWII every field
  of life (economy, technologies, art, literature,
  semiology)
• To achieve this goal it rejects elitarism and
  calls for also low culture and new forms of
  expression like advertisement, collage and others

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Main Features

• The main features of Postmodernism are related to
  relativity and create a pattern in which there is
  no centre
• In this way a subjective point of view is
  suggested, against the objective and absolute
  point of view of Modernism
• As a matter of fact there is a mix of high
  culture and low culture, not disdaining
  advertisement and new forms of expression
• A lot of social, religious and political matters
  interview in artistic works making art nearer to
  common people and to global world

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Literal Devices

• Postmodernism doesnt use lots of literal devices
  because of its own nature of relativity and
  decentered vision. Although the most common ones
  are
• Economic images and logos
• Alternative languages
• Exotic words
• Rewriting

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Conceptual Devices

• Anthropology
• Populations and cultures
• Globalization and economy
• Postcolonialism
• Relativity
• Decentered vision