1. Post modernism

2. A reaction to Modernism
Experimenting with representations of reality
Early part of 20th century
Value judgments (good/bad)
Norms/Stereotypes
People capable of original thought
Universal truth or meaning

3. Modernism in Practice Architecture:
Simplicity of form & elimination of ornamentation
Art:
Experimenting with representation of people
Good design will lead to good living
“machine for living”
Form follows function

4. Time frame authenticity
Modernism in Practice
Film
Nuclear Family
Time frame authenticity
Liner plot
Genre based

5. Breaking of Modernism Thought
Modernists…
What happened?
Believed lives would improve through science and logic
Carried over optimistic views of the Victorian Era
Science created weapons of mass destruction in WWI
Pessimism swept across Europe
Suspicion of science and logic in main events of WWII
Holocaust
Atomic Bombs in Japan

6. “Postmodernism questions those grand meta-narratives imagined by modernism. Perhaps no one person can know "the truth" about anything, if only because no truth may be experienced directly. According to postmodern authors and artists, the "presence" of truth is inevitably mediated through a range of filters, most notably fallible language.” - Dr. Andrew Wood

7. Subject of Postmodern Texts
Psychological control of the human mind
Fantastic elements of the real world
Denial of order
Only can truly know oneself
Skepticism of ideas of the modern era, especially…
Progress
Objectivity
Reason certainty
Personal identity
Grand narratives

8. Styles of Postmodernism
Takes pleasure in playing with convention
Points a out nature of how everything is a construction
Questions previously held truths, structures, forms, and conventions
Creates new truths from old forms: pastiche
Treats very serious subjects with irony or humor

9. Postmodernism in Architecture
Playing with idea of conventions & construction

10. Postmodernism in Art What is art?
Art is open to many different interpretations

11. New Definition of Family
Breaking Conventions
Family
Genre
Society
New Definition of Family
Paris 1899
Musical
21st sensibilities

12. Hyperreality
World bases its views on what is presented to them through the media
Inability to distinguish reality from simulation of reality

13. Intertextuality Acknowledges works from the past
Introduces an outside text to comment upon or play with the current text
Without the original text, the current one would lose its meaning

14. Comparison Universal standards Message transmission Authentic self
Modernism
Postmodernism
Universal standards
Message transmission
Authentic self
Linear narrative
Homogeneity
Partial truths
Discourse
Fragmented self
Hypertext
Heterogeneity

15. Images Cited
Early modernist art
Tokoyo parallellt
Full, colorful, irregular postmodern
Finding God in Abstract, Absurd, and Postmodern Art
Postmodernism and pop culture
Seagram building
Art Movements Postmodern art-icio.ru/search.php?id=49519
Advantages of a nuclear family
Gay Family Values
Big Data
The Amazing Spiderman poster
Casablance movie poster
Moulin Rouge
Modernism
Disneyland Resort Vacations
Scary Movie Poster
Intertextuatliy

16. Works Cited
Quintus. “Introduction to Postmodernism.” 12 Sep Jan 2013 <
Moore, Andrew. “Postmodernism Unpacked.” 7 Nov St. Stithians College. 24 Jan 2013 <
Matvei, Tanya. “Postmodernism Feature.” 8 Dec Jan 2013 <
Wood, Andrew. Dr. “Modernism and Postmodernism” San Jose University 24 Jan 2013 <