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The 44 pages that link to Postmodernism, each with the reason it gives.

• ModernismCompared with: Postmodernism challenges modernist ambitions while borrowing many of its formal experiments.

• SurrealismNarrower topic: Surrealism's challenges to rational authority and representation anticipate concerns later taken up across postmodern culture.

• Pop artNarrower topic: Pop art's use of commercial images helped loosen boundaries between fine art and mass culture.

• Appropriation (art)Narrower topic: Appropriation became a prominent postmodern strategy for questioning originality and artistic authority.

• Postmodern architectureNarrower topic: Architecture was one expression of a wider turn toward pluralism, quotation, and skepticism.

• American modernismCompared with: Its later methods and assumptions distinguish it from modernism’s experiments with form.

• PhotomontageRelated: Photomontage’s reuse and recombination of existing images resonate with postmodern artistic strategies.

• Contemporary artRelated: Its challenges to artistic hierarchy and originality reshaped late twentieth-century art.

• Clement GreenbergCompared with: Postmodern artists and critics challenged the purity and historical direction Greenberg assigned to modernist painting.

• Avant-gardeCompared with: It questions the avant-garde’s faith in artistic rupture and historical progress.

• Neo-noirNarrower topic: Self-conscious quotation and genre remixing connect many neo-noirs to postmodern practice.

• Mikhail BakhtinRelated: Bakhtin’s plural voices and resistance to final meanings became relevant to postmodern criticism.

• Philip JohnsonNarrower topic: Johnson’s postmodern turn became part of a wider challenge to modernist authority.

• KitschRelated: Postmodern artists sometimes recycle kitsch imagery knowingly, complicating the boundary between parody and sincere affection.

• Neo-expressionismNarrower topic: Neo-expressionism emerged within postmodernism’s return to history, quotation, and recognizable images.

• Postmodern danceNarrower topic: The dance movement shares its period’s skepticism but developed through specific choreographic experiments.

• European modernismBroader topic: It reworked modernism’s experiments while questioning its claims to progress and originality.

• Anthony GiddensCompared with: Giddens argues that contemporary society intensifies modernity rather than entering a postmodern era.

• Science warsRelated: Its writing about science became a frequent target in the controversy.

• Italo CalvinoRelated: Calvino’s fiction became a prominent example in debates about postmodern narrative.

• Jean-François LyotardNarrower topic: Lyotard’s influential account helped define postmodernism through skepticism toward grand narratives.

• Pierrot le FouRelated: The film’s conspicuous borrowing and fractured storytelling are often read through postmodern ideas.

• Thomas PynchonNarrower topic: Pynchon’s fiction became a central literary example in debates about postmodernism.

• Retro styleRelated: Its reuse of past styles helps explain retro design’s mixing of historical references.

• Baz LuhrmannRelated: Luhrmann’s mash-ups of periods, genres, and popular culture invite this interpretation.

• Brian De PalmaRelated: His overt borrowing of earlier films invites readings through postmodern imitation and critique.

• Robert VenturiNarrower topic: Venturi’s architectural challenge became part of postmodernism’s wider cultural critique.

• EclecticismRelated: Postmodern works often use eclectic mixtures to question ideas of originality and stylistic purity.

• 1990sRelated: Its cultural vocabulary helps interpret the decade’s irony, remix, and media saturation.

• Dita Von TeeseCompared with: Her performances revive recognizable historical styles more directly than postmodern pastiche typically does.

• Fredric JamesonNarrower topic: Jameson’s theory is one of the most influential attempts to explain postmodernism historically.

• Gerhard RichterRelated: Richter’s shifts between styles resist a single account of artistic progress.

• Zygmunt BaumanCompared with: Bauman used postmodernism to describe a condition before recasting the present as liquid modernity.

• César PelliNarrower topic: This wider movement helps distinguish Pelli’s modernist sensibility from nearby architectural currents.

• Memphis GroupNarrower topic: The group became one of postmodern design’s most recognizable expressions.

• MetamodernismRelated: Metamodernism inherits postmodern doubt but moves beyond irony as its final stance.

• Neo-popNarrower topic: Its challenges to originality and cultural hierarchy shaped Neo-pop’s treatment of commercial images.

• Richard PrinceNarrower topic: Prince’s image reuse exemplifies postmodern challenges to originality and cultural authority.

• Roger ScrutonCompared with: Scruton challenged postmodern approaches he believed undermined shared standards and cultural inheritance.

• TransavantgardeNarrower topic: The movement’s eclectic references and rejection of a single progressive style fit postmodern art.

• Hans HolleinNarrower topic: Hollein’s use of history, symbolism, and irony made him a prominent architectural voice within it.

• History of graphic designCompared with: Postmodern design rejected the restraint and neutrality associated with modernist systems.

• List of literary movementsRelated: Its boundary with modernism helps distinguish later literary currents.

• Postmodernist filmNarrower topic: Postmodernist film adapts this wider cultural sensibility to cinema’s images, genres, and storytelling.