Podium: `Post-modern' is an obsolete term From a talk at the Tate Gallery, London, by an art history professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: December 14, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

I CONTEND that the modernism that is said to have begun as an avant-garde style, with Manet or Brancusi or Frank Lloyd Wright or whoever, and came to dominate the art of the first half of this century, is now no longer modern. There exists now a powerful consensus, and one with which I agree, that it ceased to dominate art practice during the Sixties, when a new historical style that still goes by the absurd name of post- modernism suddenly appeared upon the intellectual horizon.

The word "post-modernism" is not only absurd, it's semantically vulnerable, because it depends, for its very ...

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