Another book I have chosen to research for my essay on Postmodernism is 'Postmodern arts' by Nigel Wheale. I will compare Wheale's views to that of previous writers studied like Linda Hutcheon and Charles Jencks. Here are some notes I found useful:
- Modernism and Postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture.
- Modernity and modernism; the period and cultural phase which have supposedly been superseded by the post-modern prefix.
- Various analysises locate the onset of modernity specifically in Western Europe from the mid-seventeenth century onwards, or otherwise emphasise the development of America as an economic and cultural catalyst during the twentieth century.
- Weak Postmodernism welcomes the failure of analytical rationality and moral argument and accepts this groundlessness as reason to act out of a pure relativism' implied by postmodern thinking.
- Strong Postmodernism; calls for ever greater analysis and reflection on the nature of modernity's failure through self-critical practices, whether in philosophy, the arts, or politics.
- Modernity is defined as the social condition brought about by the development of the western world's characteristic economic formation.
- The modernist revolution in the arts inevitably and quickly spread to the continents which shared strong cultural traditions with Europe.
'Postmodern Arts' - Nigel Wheale
