POSTMODERISM / POSTMODERNITY: A term used to designate a particular way of viewing the world (often seen as a time period) in the late twentieth century. Postmoderism is often seen as both imprecise and multiple in its meanings. Broadly, the term has been used to describe a set of social, cultural, and economic formations that have occurred "post" or after the height of modernity, and that have produced both a different world view and different ways of being in the world than that of modernity. Postmodernity has thus been used to describe a radical transformation of the social, economic, and political context of modernity, while at the same time it is often understood as an extension of modernity. In terms of its application to art and visual style, postmodernism has been used to describe a set of trends in the art world in the late twentieth century that question, among other things, concepts of authenticity, authorship, and the idea of style progression. Postmodern works are thus highly reflexive with a mix of styles. In popular culture and advertising, the term has been used to describe techniques that involve reflexivity, discontinuity, and pastiche.
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