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Title	What was postmodernism?
Speaker	Farrell, John
Contributors	Burrow, Gale (introduction)
Subjects	American literature Artists Authors as artists Mr. Potato Head (Trademark) Nature Poetry Postmodernism Reality Self
Description	In the 1980s, the term "postmodernism" was adopted by literary critics to designate what the reigning generation of artists and theorists, figures like Pynchon, Cage, Warhol, and Barthes, had in common. Postmodernists shared an interest in presenting words, sounds, or images for their own sake. They questioned the ability of art, or even language in general, to refer to anything beyond itself, adopting for themselves a fundamental detachment or post-metaphysical cool. Where modernism sought profundity, originality, and ontological grounding, postmodernism was an art of exhilarating superficiality, unmoored borrowing, and an enjoyable lightness of being. The arrival of postmodernism has often been treated as an epoch-making event in the history of Western culture. John Farrell finds these claims overblown. In his lecture, he will present some ambitious theories of what postmodernism meant and counter them with observations of his own.
Notes	Rosenkranz, Adam (lecture organizer)
Publisher	Claremont Colleges Library
Date	2006-11-08
Language	eng
Source	Original digital video cassette: 60 minute DVM of lecture by John Farrell
Collection	Claremont Discourse Lectures - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cdl/
Rights	Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
Type	Moving Image
Format	video/f4v
Object File Name	cdl00004

What was postmodernism?

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