2. WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM?
• Postmodernism is a late 20th-century style and concept in the
arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure
from modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use
of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic
styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.
3. CONTINUED…
• Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of
scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it
stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in
human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the
mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality.
• In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything;
reality only comes into being through our interpretations of
what the world means to us individually.
4. GLOSSARY
• Reinvent – Recreate something to make it better then it was before.
• Surrealism - a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative
potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
• Self reflexive - The definition of self reflexive is someone making reference to their own artificiality. An example of a
self reflexive critique is a politician who goes back over her life and reflects on where she may not have been totally
honest in what she said or did.
• Intertextuality – When one media text refers to another.
• Parody - Mocking something in an original way.
• Pastiche – Imitating the style of someone's work. E.g. Picasso
• Bricolage – The construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.
• Homage – Honoring or respecting someone's work publicly.
