Postmodernism emerged in the mid-20th century as a reaction against the perceived limitations and failures of Modernism.

This course examines literature, art, music, and architecture associated with modernism and postmodernism, along with their philosophical backgrounds. Topics covered include the aesthetic response to ...

outlived Pollock by 17 years.) And we still use both terms to describe artists, nearly a hundred years after their start. It becomes ridiculous, which, in and of itself, can be a characteristic of ...

Concurrent shows "Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan, 1989-2010" and "Anti-Action: Artist Women's Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan" reexamine the country’s modern art through fresh ...

"Postmodernism, as it applies to science, is the philosophical position that science is nothing more than a cultural narrative and therefore has no special or privileged relationship with the truth." ...

Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, Vol. 12 (2020), pp. 21-37 (17 pages) This article presents the results of an innovative in-depth investigation of the reception of Tom McCarthy's novel C ...