Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
“He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the… — Heath White Copy Share Image
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“modernity is positivist while post-modernity is relativist; modernity is based on industrial production while post-modernity is based on information flows; modernity generates… — John Monaghan Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older,… — Frederic Jameson Copy Share Image
“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight;… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the modern love change you too much that you forget what it is to live with kindness and compassion. From… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“jSimplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” — J.F.Lyotard The POstmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Copy Share Image
“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“The revolution is just a T-shirt away. - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward ” — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory. — Kara Ross Copy Share Image
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
