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Postmodern Art
A broad cultural and aesthetic movement emerging in the 1960s, postmodern art is defined not by a unified style but by strategies — appropriation, pastiche, irony, and self-referentiality — deployed to expose and destabilize inherited hierarchies of meaning and value.
Overview
Rooted in poststructuralist philosophy from Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Jean Baudrillard, the movement translated concepts such as the death of the author, différance, and simulacra into visual practice, questioning how meaning is produced rather than what a work contains. Andy Warhol's commercial appropriations, Cindy Sherman's constructed self-portraits, and the Pictures Generation's media deconstructions are defining examples.
Why it matters
Postmodern art fundamentally reshaped the critical landscape of contemporary culture, dismantling the authority of the autonomous genius and the myth of linear aesthetic progress, and profoundly influencing graphic design, architecture, fashion, and digital media.
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