Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:24:02 -0500
From: Barry Smylie <barrysmylie-AT-iname.com>
Subject: Re: REVIEW of "difference/indifference" - Roth & Katz


I didn't realize that it was a popular term in the description of poetry... mind you
i didn't study anything formally beyond the hip poets - i have concentrated my
energy on the making of visual art (graphics, ceramics, acrylics)

George Free wrote:

> 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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