Postmodernism A movement in painting, literature, television, film and the arts generally. There is disagreement as to what its main features are but they include the following.
Postmodernism is often opposed to modernism .
However, the two movements share many of the features listed above and they are probably both best seen as artistic avant-gardes which have to separate themselves off from conventional artistic practice only to become conventional themselves in time. Sociologically, the interesting question is the relationship of postmodernism to postmodernity - whether the former is the culture of the latter. The issue for both is whether they represent genuinely new cultural and social forms or whether they are merely transitional phenomena produced by rapid social change. Modernism Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought 2. Modernism The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature 3.