File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9903, message 12


Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:52:23 -0500 (EST)
From: George Free <aw570-AT-freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: REVIEW of "difference/indifference" - Roth & Katz


On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Barry Smylie wrote:

> what i don't get is the fact that architects formulated the idea of postmodern
> as a return to older forms using new materials
> 
> i didn't hear about it till around 1980 (can't remember exactly) but there was
> no postmodern before then i know that

	The term had been used in the 60s in poetry, if I recall
correctly, to describe post-ww2 poetry... But, you're right, the term
didn't get much circulation untill about the mid80s with the publication
of F. Lyotard's book the Postmodern Condition. Then it spread like
wildfire through the avant-garde academia...(a contradiction in terms?) It
subsequently became popular in artistic circles, with the 80s dominance of
"theory" etc.... 
	
G.


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