| 单词 | post-modern |
| 释义 | post-ˈmodern, a.
Also post-Modern.
[post- B. 1 b.]
Subsequent to, or later than, what is ‘modern’; spec. in the arts, esp. Archit., applied to a movement in reaction against that designated ‘modern’ (cf. modern a. 2 h). Hence post-ˈmodernism, post-ˈmodernist a. and n.
1949J. Hudnut Archit. & Spirit of Man ix. 108 (heading) Post-modern house. Ibid. 119 He shall be a modern owner, a post-modern owner, if such a thing is conceivable. Free from all sentimentality or fantasy or caprice. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. ii. xi. 146 Our post-Modern Age of Western history. 1959C. W. Mills Sociol. Imagination ix. 166 Just as Antiquity was followed by several centuries of Oriental ascendancy..so now the Modern Age is being succeeded by a post-modern period. Perhaps we may call it: The Fourth Epoch. 1965L. A. Fiedler in Partisan Rev. XXXII. 508, I am not now interested in analyzing..the diction and imagery which have passed from Science Fiction into post-Modernist literature. 1966F. Kermode in Encounter Apr. 73/1 Pop fiction demonstrates ‘a growing sense of the irrelevance of the past’ and Top [sic] writers (‘post-Modernists’) are catching on. 1966N. Pevsner in Listener 29 Dec. 955/2 The fact that my enthusiasms cannot be roused by..Churchill College.., does not blind me to the existence today of a new style, successor to my International Modern of the nineteen-thirties, a post-modern style, I would be tempted to call it, but the legitimate style of the nineteen-fifties and nineteen-sixties. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Apr. 30/3 A process that culminates, by a curious but inexorable logic, in the post-modernist demand for the abolition of art and its assimilation to ‘reality’. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Nov. 743/1 Many Post-Modern architects use motifs..in questionable taste. Ibid. 751/1 Post-Modernists have substituted the body metaphor for the machine metaphor, because so much research has shown that we unconsciously project bodily states into architecture. 1979Time 8 Jan. 53/1 The nearest man Post-Modernism has to a senior partner is, in fact, the leading American architect of his generation: Philip Cortelyou Johnson. 1980Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 7 Mar. 16/1 Postmodernism, structuralism, and neo-dada (formerly known as ‘concrete poetry’) all represent a reaction against modernism. |
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