1. P OST - MODERNISM Alyssa Martinez Prof. Evelyn Lugo Eng 126 Universidad del Este Carolina, P.R.

2. P OSTMODERNISM Is a tendency from the contemporary culture characterized by the conflict of objective truth and subjective suspicion towards global cultural narrative.

3. P OSTMODERNISM IN LITERATURE In USA appeared in 1972 with the journal Boundary 2. David Antin, Charles Olson, John Cage and the Black Mountain College school of poetry and the arts were figures at the exposition of postmodernism at the time. William Gaddis, John Hawkes, William Burroughs, Giannina Braschi, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, E.L. Doctorow, Jerzy Kosinski, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, Ana Lydia Vega, and Paul Auster were important novelists.

4. P OSTMODERNISM IN ARCHITECTURE Is a response of the hostility of the modern movement. It rejects the «pure» form or «perfect» architectonic detail. Was one of the first aesthetic movement on challenge the modernism, in favor of variety and personal preferences.

5. P OSTMODERNISM IN ART An art movement contradictory with some aspects of modernism.

6. D IFFERENCES Purpose Design Hierarchy Hypotactic Totalization Presence Root/depth Synthesis Urbanism Elitism Play Chance Anarchy Paratactic Deconstruction Absence Rhizome/surface Antithesis Anarchy and fragmentation Anti-authoritarianism ModernismPostmodernism

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