Postmodernism
Postmodernism may appear as the ultimate phase of modernism; it
expresses what may happen in art after the modernist project appears
to have ended. It is characterised by an ability to use a vocabulary
of media, genres or styles as parts of an extended visual language
that goes beyond the boundaries of what is usually thought of as
the modernist project. Postmodernism is, by its very nature, impossible
to define clearly. Some of the best expositions appear in the theoretical
writings of Jean Baudrillard, who concludes that what motivates
art historical change is not any 'authentic' or 'original' impulse,
but simply fashion, pivoting on the desire for novelty, which he
sees as an organic and integrated process.
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