Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements. It emerged in the mid-20th century as a skeptical response to modernism, emphasizing the instability of meaning,
SIS Building (1994) by Terry Farrell: Detail view of the British intelligence service (MI6) headquarters in London, a "hulking, postmodern fortress" influenced by 1930s industrial modernist design and Mayan and Aztec temples.
The poet Robert Creeley in 1972
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup I (1968)
Portland Building (1982) by Michael Graves, considered the first built example of postmodern architecture in a tall building and "a seminal Postmodern work"
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, performing arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, archi
Postmodernism
…Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements. It emerged in the mid-20th century as a skeptical response to modernism, emphasizing the instability of meaning, rejection of universal truths, and critique of grand narratives. While its definition varies across disciplines…
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Martha Graham Bertram Ross 1961
'Fish' by Constantin Brâncusi, Tate Modern