Editing Retro style (section)

==Definition==
The term ''retro'' has been in use since 1972 to describe<ref>Woodham 2004</ref> on the one hand, new artifacts that self-consciously refer to particular modes, motifs, techniques, and materials of the past.<ref name = dermody7>Dermody, Breathnach 2009, p. 7</ref> But on the other hand, many people use the term to categorize styles that have been created in the past.<ref name = baker622>Baker 2012, p. 622</ref> Retro style refers to new things that display characteristics of the past. Unlike the [[Historicism (art)|historicism]] of the [[Romanticism|Romantic generations]], it is mostly the recent past that retro seeks to recapitulate, focusing on the products, fashions, and artistic styles produced since the Industrial Revolution, the successive styles of [[Modernity]].<ref>Guffey 2006, p. 25</ref> The English word ''retro'' derives from the [[Latin]] prefix ''retro'', meaning backwards, or in past times.

In France, the word ''rétro'', an abbreviation for ''rétrospectif'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnrtl.fr/lexicographie/r%C3%A9tro |title=French definition of ''rétro'' |publisher=Cnrtl.fr |date=1978-09-11 |access-date=2011-11-20}}</ref> gained cultural currency with reevaluations of [[Charles de Gaulle]] and France's role in [[World War II]].  The French ''mode rétro'' of the 1970s reappraised in film and novels the conduct of French civilians during the Nazi occupation. The term ''rétro'' was soon applied to nostalgic French fashions that recalled the same period.<ref>Walker, John. (1992) [http://www.artdesigncafe.com/retro-style-retrochic-1992 "Retro"]. ''Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945'', 3rd. ed.</ref>

Shortly thereafter ''retro'' was introduced into English by the fashion and culture press, where it suggests a rather cynical revival of older but relatively recent fashions.<ref>Elizabeth E. Guffey, ''Retro: The Culture of Revival'', pp.&nbsp;9–22</ref> In ''Simulacra and Simulation'', French theorist [[Jean Baudrillard]] describes ''retro'' as a demythologization of the past, distancing the present from the big ideas that drove the modern age.<ref>Baudrillard. p. 43</ref>

Most commonly ''retro'' is used to describe [[Object (philosophy)|objects]] and attitudes from the recent past that never seem modern.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fischer|first=Ramone|date=2021-09-14|title=Retro vs Antique|url=https://platformer.me/knowhow/retro-vs-antique/|access-date=2021-09-22|website=Platformer|language=en-GB}}</ref> It suggests a fundamental shift in the way we relate to the past. Different from more traditional forms of revivalism, "retro" suggests a half ironic, half longing consideration of the recent past; it has been called an "unsentimental nostalgia",<ref>E. Guffey 2006</ref> recalling modern forms that are no longer current. The concept of [[nostalgia]] is linked to retro, but the bittersweet desire for things, persons, and situations of the past has an ironic stance in retro style. Retro shows nostalgia with a dose of cynicism and detachment.<ref>Guffey 2006, p. 20</ref> The desire to capture something from the past and evoke nostalgia is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the present.<ref>Dermody, Breathnach 2009, p. 15</ref>