Editing Modernism (section)

== Relationship with postmodernism ==
[[File:Charles Thomson. Strip Club.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|''Strip Club'', an early [[Stuckist]] work by [[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thompson]], who would later co-found the [[remodernist]] movement against postmodern art]]
{{see also|New Sincerity|Post-postmodernism}}
By the early 1980s, the postmodern movement in art and architecture began to establish its position through various [[wikt:conceptual|conceptual]] and [[intermedia]] formats. Postmodernism in music and literature began to take hold earlier. In music, postmodernism is described in one reference work as a "term introduced in the 1970s",<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Postmodernism |title=The Penguin Companion to Classical Music |editor-first=Paul |editor-last=Griffiths |location=London |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |date=2004}}</ref> while in British literature, ''The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature'' sees modernism "ceding its predominance to postmodernism" as early as 1939.<ref name="British Literature' 2006"/> However, dates are highly debatable, especially as, according to [[Andreas Huyssen]]: "one critic's postmodernism is another critic's modernism."<ref name="Macmillan">{{cite web |url=http://www.bokkilden.no/SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=952726 |title=Postmodern Debates |author=Bokkilden |work=Bokkilden |access-date=9 May 2011 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124155200/https://www.bokkilden.no/SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=952726 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This includes those who are critical of the division between the two, see them as two aspects of the same movement, and believe that late modernism continues.<ref name="Macmillan"/>

Modernism is an all-encompassing label for a wide variety of cultural movements. Postmodernism is essentially a centralized movement that named itself, based on socio-political theory, although the term is now used in a wider sense to refer to activities from the 20th century onwards which exhibit awareness of and reinterpret the modern.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/postmodernism?view=uk| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040926081504/http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/postmodernism?view=uk| url-status=dead| archive-date=26 September 2004| title=Oxford Dictionaries – Dictionary, Thesaurus, & Grammar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postmodernism| title=Postmodern – Definition of Postmodern by Merriam-Webster| date=14 June 2023| access-date=2 October 2009| archive-date=3 December 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203162247/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postmodernism| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Ruth Reichl, Cook's November 1989; [http://www.bartleby.com/61/26/P0472600.html American Heritage Dictionary's definition of the Postmodern] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209075319/http://www.bartleby.com/61/26/P0472600.html |date=9 December 2008 }}</ref>

Postmodern theory asserts that the attempt to canonize modernism "after the fact" is doomed to unresolvable contradictions.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/pomo.html| title=The Po-Mo Page: Postmodern to Post-postmodern| access-date=2 October 2009| archive-date=26 July 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726122523/http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/pomo.html| url-status=live}}</ref> And since the crux of postmodernism critiques any claim to a single discernible truth, postmodernism and modernism conflict on the existence of truth. Where modernists approach the issue of 'truth' with different theories (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, semantic, etc.), postmodernists approach the issue of truth negatively by disproving the very existence of an accessible truth.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mclntyre |first=Lee |title=Post-truth |date=2018 |publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-53504-5 |series=The MIT Press essential knowledge series |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England}}</ref>

In a narrower sense, what was modernist was not necessarily also postmodernist. Those elements of modernism which accentuated the benefits of rationality and socio-technological progress were only modernist.<ref>Wagner, ''British, Irish and American Literature'', Trier 2002, pp. 210–12</ref> 	

Modernist reactions against postmodernism include [[remodernism]], which rejects the cynicism and deconstruction of postmodern art in favor of reviving early modernist aesthetic currents.<ref name=medina>Medina, Valerie J. (2002)[http://www.dailylobo.com/media/storage/paper344/news/2002/01/17/Culture/Modern.Art.Surges.Ahead-165440.shtml?norewrite200604290131&sourcedomain=www.dailylobo.com "Modern art surges ahead:¡Magnifico! features new artistic expression"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603165002/https://www.dailylobo.com/media/storage/paper344/news/2002/01/17/Culture/Modern.Art.Surges.Ahead-165440.shtml?norewrite200604290131&sourcedomain=www.dailylobo.com |date=3 June 2022 }} ''Daily Lobo'', 17 January 2002. Accessed 29 April 2006</ref><ref name=packer>Packer, William. "Childish artists coming unstuck", p.13, and "Young pretenders of art have much to learn", p. 20, ''[[Financial Times]]'', March 13, 2001. The text from different editions is the same: "Childish and his co-founder, Charles Thomson, ushered in remodernism, 'a period of art ... to reclaim the vision and spiritual values of the early modernists and replace the ennui of post-modernism'."</ref>