What is Modernism/Postmodernism?

Here is a brief video on Modernism and Postmodernism of what it actually means just so it's clear for everybody!  





First of all, John Keenan in this video describes what modernism is:

"... modernism can be seen as belief in progress, through science, through research, through discovery - we are going to find out a better way of living..."





At around 4:20 in the video, he explains the ideas behind postmodernism:

"... postmodernism has the rejection of modernism... it suggest that this idea behind that was in modernism, that things were fixed, that things made sense, of rational thought mattered, all those ideas which were only ideas - and you could argue false ideas? Those ideas... society began to reject... is there more to life than that which we can just prove?..."





So... I guess you could say the 1980's onwards has seen this rise in postmodernism down to the fact that people were getting sick of things being so perfect and things always making sense. People wanted to start questioning society more such as the art movement which as you may know by now I am focusing on.  


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ehh1b6kNWA

– Adam Reid