The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism [Paperback]

This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture  high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure  across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. Comprehensive and accessible, this book is indispensable for scholars, students, and general readers interested in late-twentieth-century culture.This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture  high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure  across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. Comprehensive and accessible, this book is indispensable for scholars, students, and general readers interested in late-twentieth-century culture.The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture  high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure  across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism  people and places from Andy Warhol, Jefferson Airplane, and magical realism to Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Laurie Anderson, and cyberpunk  this book creates a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon that continues to exert an influence over our present post-postmodern situation. Comprehensive and accessible, this Introduction is indispensable for scholars, students, and general readers interested in late-twentieth-century culture.1. Before postmodernism; 2. Big bang; 3. The major phase: peak postmodernism, 197390; 4. Interregnum, 19892000; 5. After postmodernism.