Kitsch Quote by Charles Jencks

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

— Twyla Tharp

“In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic,…

— Frederic Jameson

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…

— Fredric Jameson

'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one…

— Johann Johannsson

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,…

— Gilbert Adair

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

— Jean Baudrillard

“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It didn’t drop…

— Heath White

I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise…

— Grant Morrison

“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a…

— Brian Celio

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

“Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By “style” was meant…

— Adolf Loos