Background

Question 1

What is postmodernism a result of?

Answer 1

Postmodernism evolved from modernism, and also rebelled against it

Question 2

What do postmodernists believe, in the most basic sense?

Answer 2

Postmodernists believe that nothing new can be created anymore. All that we create is borrowed from and influenced by what has already been created

Question 3

What was modernism generally based on?

Answer 3

Modernism was generally based on idealism and a utopian vision of human life and society and a belief in progress

Question 4

What did modernism assume?

Answer 4

Modernism assumed that certain ultimate universal principles or truths such as those formulated by religion or science could be used to understand or explain reality

Question 5

What was postmodernism born of?

Answer 5

Postmodernism was born of scepticism and a suspicion of reason

Question 6

What did postmodernism challenge?

Answer 6

Postmodernism challenged the notion that there are universal certainties or truths

Question 7

What did postmodernism advocate?

Answer 7

Postmodernism advocated that individual experience and interpretation of our experience was more concrete than abstract principles

Question 8

What did postmodernism refuse to do?

Answer 8

Postmodernism refused to recognise the authority of any single style or definition of what art should be, it collapsed the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, and between art and everyday life