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<p>[QUOTE="mark737, post: 4357144, member: 14894"]A few basic descriptions cobbled together from the web:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>In the 1960s, artists and architects started rejecting modernism. Rather than focusing on serious, objective designs free of subject, they started breaking rules. Which rules? Any and all of them! Postmodernist art and architecture started celebrating color, texture, and subject, all with a hint of whimsy and irony. Postmodernism celebrated everything unconventional, flashy, complex, and weird, and often prioritized form over function.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>As a furniture example, without the bright colors associated with Memphis Milano, here's a chair I picked up yesterday that I would call Postmodern. It was made by a Canadian company in the 90s, the tail end of the PoMo era, and a good example of form over function.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]362406[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mark737, post: 4357144, member: 14894"]A few basic descriptions cobbled together from the web: [I]In the 1960s, artists and architects started rejecting modernism. Rather than focusing on serious, objective designs free of subject, they started breaking rules. Which rules? Any and all of them! Postmodernist art and architecture started celebrating color, texture, and subject, all with a hint of whimsy and irony. Postmodernism celebrated everything unconventional, flashy, complex, and weird, and often prioritized form over function.[/I] As a furniture example, without the bright colors associated with Memphis Milano, here's a chair I picked up yesterday that I would call Postmodern. It was made by a Canadian company in the 90s, the tail end of the PoMo era, and a good example of form over function. [ATTACH=full]362406[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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