Editing Postmodern art (section)

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'''Postmodern art''' is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of [[modernism]] or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as [[intermedia]], [[installation art]], [[conceptual art]] and [[multimedia]], particularly involving video are described as [[Postmodernism|postmodern]].

There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, [[bricolage]], the use of text prominently as the central artistic element, [[collage]], [[abstract art|simplification]], [[appropriation art|appropriation]], [[performance art]], as well as the break-up of the barrier between [[fine arts|fine]] and [[high culture|high arts]] and [[low culture|low art]] and [[popular culture]].<ref>''Ideas About Art'', Desmond, Kathleen K. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iP4sA3kwcFsC&q=ideas+about+art] John Wiley & Sons, 2011, p.148</ref><ref>''International postmodernism: theory and literary practice'', Bertens, Hans [https://books.google.com/books?id=n_Eqx2Gr1vUC&q=international+postmodernism:+theory+and+literary+practice], Routledge, 1997, p.236</ref>