MODERNISM

- it develops during the first three decades of XX Century;

-it believes in traditional ideas;

- it believes in the existence of an absolute meaning;

- Modernists think they could find a possibility of truth;

- everything has got a centre;

- reality is one-->only a point of view;

- only higher art is considered respectable.

 POSTMODERNISM

- it develops after the first three decades of XX Century, as a consequence of Modernism;

- traditional ideas are posed into doubt;

- it believes that meaning is never stable, always slippery, still to come --> MEANING IS DIFFERED;

-no truth exists;

-there is no more a centre, everything is subjective;

-there are many point of view, there is not only a reality;

- it abolishes the differences between low and higher art.