Post-Modernism
ポスト・モダニズム / 1970s–1990s / Style / Avant-garde
Doubts the single right answer and mixes quotation, irony and ornament as play. The answers per field stand as their own entries, with Memphis in furniture, Postmodern Architecture in building, and New Wave on the page.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Mixed styles
- Irony
- Ornament reclaimed
- Unexpected color
Best used for
- Planting intelligent humor
- Escaping homogeneous category codes
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Mix two or three faces from different eras
- Composition
- Show the grid, then deviate from part of it
- Material
- Quoted images, patterns, vivid color; meaningful collisions
- Caution
- Random is not plural. Mix only what you can justify aloud.
- Further study
- Wolfgang Weingart / April Greiman
Related entries
- Modernism (モダニズム)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Post-Modernism and Modernism
- Memphis (メンフィス)Shared effects: Play.Compare Post-Modernism and Memphis
Often confused with
More from Avant-garde
Continue through styles in the same Avant-garde family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Dada (ダダ)Shared effects: Rebellion / Play.
- Fluxus (フルクサス)Shared effects: Rebellion / Play.
- Surrealism (シュルレアリスム)Shared effects: Rebellion / Play.
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- https://indexstyle.org/styles/post-modernism
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