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post-modernism

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Right, and what zerr calls incompetence could also be called post-modernism.

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Right, and what zerr calls incompetence could also be called post-modernism.

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Right, and what zerr calls incompetence could also be called post-modernism.

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If the 1880s were the miraculous decade in terms of technological breakthroughs, the first 3 or 4 decades of the 20th century were a radical fracture in terms of fundamental thinking across the whole culture: Einstein, Godel, quantum physics, post-modernism, dadaism, Picasso, Joyce's Ulysses.

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I think it's far past time to move on from modernism & "post-modernism" to find a clearer ideal for the 21st century.

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Modern art insists that the artist is telling and the viewer is receiving, thus why an apparent lack of structure can still be "about something", but post-modernism insists that the audience is an active participant in the art.

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> I think it's far past time to move on from modernism & "post-modernism" to find a clearer ideal for the 21st century.

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Post-modernism definitely, as far as I (as a layman, tbh) understand it, rejects a kind of hierarchy and structure, but it's not the art itself that it insists has no structure but the artist-viewer relationship.

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I think it's far past time to move on from modernism & "post-modernism" to find a clearer ideal for the 21st century.

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Modern art insists that the artist is telling and the viewer is receiving, thus why an apparent lack of structure can still be "about something", but post-modernism insists that the audience is an active participant in the art.

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> I think it's far past time to move on from modernism & "post-modernism" to find a clearer ideal for the 21st century.

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Post-modernism definitely, as far as I (as a layman, tbh) understand it, rejects a kind of hierarchy and structure, but it's not the art itself that it insists has no structure but the artist-viewer relationship.

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Right, and what zerr calls incompetence could also be called post-modernism.