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Style or styles in architecture and the decorative arts that were a reaction to the Modern movement, Modernism, International Modernism, and the dogmas developed especially at the Bauhaus.
(From A Dictionary of Architecture in Art & Architecture)
A term that has been used in a broad and diffuse way, with reference to a wide range of cultural phenomena, to characterize a move away-beginning in about 1960-from the highbrow seriousness of modernism in favour of a more eclectic and populist...
(From A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art in Art & Architecture)
A term which describes the reactions to the dominance of Modernism in architecture and the visual arts.
(From The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms in Art & Architecture)
n. a late 20th-century style and concept in the arts and architecture, which represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with the notion of 'art'.
(From The Concise Oxford English Dictionary in English Dictionaries and Thesauruses)
1. An architectural style which is a composite of past styles, characterized by a variety of colours, stylistic details from many periods, and what is claimed to be a return to a vernacular style.
(From A Dictionary of Geography in Earth & Environmental Sciences)
A disputed term that has occupied much recent debate about contemporary culture since the early 1980s.
(From The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms in Literature)
A school of thought which rejects what is called modernism.
(From The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics in Politics & Social Sciences)
In the culture generally, postmodernism is associated with a playful acceptance of surfaces and superficial style, self-conscious quotation and parody (although these are also found in modernist literature, such as that of James Joyce), and a celebration of the ironic, the transient and the glitzy.
(From The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy in Religion & Philosophy)
There is some consensus about what this term refers to as a body of theory: namely, a selection of texts by such writers as Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard, augmented by a particular reading of a further selection of texts by post-structuralists such as Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
(From A Dictionary of Sociology in Politics & Social Sciences)
n, adj postmoderniste (mf)
(From The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary in Modern Languages)
adj. (in literature, architecture, the arts, etc.) denoting a movement reacting against modern tendencies, esp. by drawing attention to former conventions.
(From The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English in English Dictionaries and Thesauruses)
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