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Mapping of Postmodernism and Modernism
MODERNISM | POSTMODERNISM |
Cultural movement | Cultural movement |
Late 19th - beginning 20th | Since 60es on |
Believe in progress. | Rejection of authority. |
It tries to find the truth. There is only one centers, only one truth. | It questions the possibility to finding the truth. It doesn't believe in the concept of a centre. |
Interpretation of reality from a lot of points of view. | Reality has no absolute meaning. Meaning is never stable. |
Expansion of the possibilities of representation. | Reality doesn't have a centre. There are more centers. |
Virtues such as purity and spirituality are expressed even through geometrical forms. | There is no difference between low and high art. |
Modernism is a cultural movement which developed in the late 19th and the beginning 20th century, while Postmodernism developed during the 60es. In Modernism there is only centre and one truth, in Postmodernism there are more centers, there is no believe in the conception of only one centre.
Modernism still believes in the possibility to find the Truth; Postmodernism questions the idea of authority and truth. Modernism is a result against the conservative values of Realism; it rejects the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking. Postmodernism doesn't believe in the existence of an absolute meaning, meaning is never stable.
Modernism develops especially in arts, music and philosophy. Examples of Modernism are: Cubism, Abstract art and Expressionism. Postmodernism abolishes the differences between low and high art.