- The American Heritage Dictionary describes the meaning of the same term as "Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: “It [a roadhouse] is so architecturally interesting … with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock”.[3]
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Friday, August 07, 2009
Who is pomo?
There is a conversation going on here about post modernism and the TNIV. What does this expression mean? Here is the wikipedia entry, which finishes with this paragraph,
An interesting observation, though I would not consider the ESV post-modern at all. Perhaps pre-modern (in the same sense that pre-Raphaelite painters came after Raphael)?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe anti-modern?
Wasn't there a time in literature we could read about the horrors of 'modernism'?
ReplyDeleteI attended a church a while back that had it's very own 'post modern' department. It was called pomo department. I thought that was very strange.