To attempt to define what post-modernist planning is; it may be most effective to examine what modernist planning is not. If modernism can be said to have broken ties with any or all historical conditions, than post-modernism can be said to re-establish historical ties (Harvey, 12). Post Modernism is marked by a long-lasting disbelief that discards modernism as an ideal defining twentieth century culture. In Challenging tradition, however, Post Modernism determinedly refuses to define a new meaning or force an alternative order in its place. It represents a generation intentionally not in search of its identity (Harvey, 20). For this reason, it is not a logical movement at all, but a loose collection of tendencies, which, all told, reflect a new awareness. Post modernism is terms that have been used in a broad and scattered way, with references to a wide range of cultural phenomena; post modernism supports a more eclectic mixture of any tradition with that of its immediate past.
In 1945 the western world was emerging from a long, dark tunnel of economic depression and worldwide war (Norbert, 23). In the United States, the light at the end of the tunnel illuminated the shortages left after years focused entirely on survival. Thus, with the conclusion of the war, the country rushed to satisfy the needs and wants of a population overwhelmed and excited by returning servicemen and a newly refreshed economy (Norbert, 30). The post-war years saw common citizens experience economic prosperity not previously known. This, in turn, sparked a renewal and explosive expansion of trends, in all aspects of architecture and furniture design. The US lagged behind Europe, especially in the design of Modern architecture and furniture design (Belgrad, 42).
Design relies heavily on what has gone on before and influences what will fallow. The postwar era was a focal point at which many diverse and seemingly unrelated paths converged to create new forms for living, new ways of looking at our physical surroundings.
These efforts can be best understood by examining post-modernism. ... To understand post-modernism we must first understand modernism. ... Post-modernism can be viewed as an expansion of modernism. ... Post-modernism is all encompassing. Post-modernism does not allow for only one definition for anything. ...
Swiss typography carried out the desires of the pre-war pioneers for objectivity in visual communication. ... Weingart rebelled against the minimalism of Modernism and initiated a body of work with his students that pushed early modernisms Constructivist experiments to their logical extremes. ... Two years after he left Basel, Weingart was offered a teaching assistant post for the International Advanced program for Graphic Design and so returned. ... But the Avant-garde was there through-out Modernisms reign. ... As Postmodernism did to Modernism. ...
Collecting War Debts a. ... Traditionalism and Modernism Clash 1. ... During the post war Red Scare, fear that communists and socialists from eastern Europe were traveling to the U.S. with their revolutionary doctrines added emotional edge to the debate. 2. ... Modernism in Art and Literature 1. ... Post War Literature Flowers a. ...
Modernism in Art and Architecture The movement from modernism to postmodernism and the development of architectural form is clearly an underlying principle even in the late 20th century structures created by architects like Libeskind. ... This can be best understood through the assessment of economic and social changes that went along with the industrial development and post-World War II expansion of capitalism (Best and Kellner, 2000). ... "The culture of post-modernism is `dynamic and decentred'...as apparent opposites overlap. ... By comparison, the ideals of modern...
Both men wrote in a post-war era. Eliot wrote The Wasteland following World War I, although he denies that the poem was about the war, there is evidence of the overall feeling during this post-war period. ... Eliot wrote during a period of modernism. ... Each man's view of the world in a post-war society perfectly captures the feeling of the time. Eliot's work is titled The Wasteland; he believes all of the post-war society is just that, a wasteland. ...
From a prominent magazine that solely embraced on modernism, Margaret Anderson accused Duncan for being a "pseudo-artist." ... The post war generation brought immigrants into the United States. ... Duncan's expressive body was a surprise to the post war generation. The war brought more freedom to people. ...
This new style from these lost artists had Hemmingway as a figurehead, one of the literary minds who brought in the style of writing known today as Modernism. ... They distrusted the sickening behavior of the rich at home, and the world itself was torn apart by war. ... After the war, the "lost generation" lost their traditional values. ... Ernest Hemmingway unlike many of his contemporaries, was actually there during the wars and strife. ... He portrayed real emotion through honesty of the post war "lost generation", giving realism to a detached society. ...
