Compare the key elements of Modernism and Postmodernism

Absolute total RandomPostmodernism can manifest as juxtaposition of anything Modernist with the Classical. Postmodernism,  is modernism with an added element of irony and deeper meaning such as a radical political statement, deconstruction of historical benchmarks, or socio-economic commentary. It is the glorification of rebellious lifestyle, Everything is relative, not absolute. It is really hard to describe Postmodernism really,I just know that Postmodernism is the idea that there are no absolute truths.
When I think of modernism, I think of cutting edge, new, fresh, and original…Modernism always strives for progress, which according to Modernism can be measured and objectively defined.

The 1975 poster by Josef Müller-Brockman entitled “akari” is an advertisement for an exhibition in Germany for a Japanese light company (Akari). This is simplicity at its finest, the beautiful circle of light and its reflection, the four-column grid layout of the text which includes the simple title (all lower case, Helvetica), and the simple black background. 

Postmodernism

Wickapedida states that postmodernism is a way of being free to combine any elements or styles in a piece of work even if it is irrelevant to the subject and it stated that postmodernism rejects rigid genre boundaries and promotes parody, irony, and playfulness, commonly referred to as jouissance by postmodern theorists, in graphis design postmodernims has been a visual and decorative movment. Then It went on to say how some artistic movement saw postmodernism as pop art, which when I thought about it, I agreed with to a certain extent. Unlike modern art, postmodern art does not approach this fragmentation as somehow faulty or undesirable, but rather celebrates it.

This is the album cover for The Sex Pistol’s 1977 hit single “God Save the Queen”. Designed by British artist Jaime Reid, this cover comes to symbolize the punk movement of late 1970’s England. This cover would later come to influence a style that would come to categorize early postmodern design different typeface in one compositions with little to no visible organization and the use of appropriation. (http://en.wikipedia.org)









http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/postm-body.html
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0242.html

MODERNISM

POSTMODERNISM

Master Narratives and Metanarratives of history.	Rejection of Master Narratives, ironic deconstruction of master narratives.
Hierarchy, order, centralized control.	Anarchy, Subverted order, loss of centralized control, fragmentation.
Seriousness of intention and purpose.	Play, irony, challenge to official seriousness.
Determinacy	Indeterminacy
Sense of clear generic boundaries and wholeness.	Hybridity, promiscuous genres, pastiche.
Centering/centeredness, Centralized knowledge.	Dispersal, dissemination, distributed knowledge
Linear,  proportional effects	Nonlinear, disproportional effects
three-dimensional space	multidimensional
clarity	cluttered
Hypo taxis	Parataxis
Books as sufficient bearer of the word, the library as system for printed knowledge.	The Web or Net as information system
Dichotomy of high and low culture (official vs. popular culture)	Disruption of the dominance of high culture by popular culture.
Transcendence	Immanence