Postmodernism




Postmodernism is considered to be a late twentieth-century concept of styles and ideas that deal with art, architecture and culture and shows a deviation from modernism. This is the current era we live in and is continuously evolving. The different eras of art, such as realism, modernism, and postmodernism, come as a result of the current times and is a way to communicate and connect with specific groups that have formed in society. Postmodernism often times plays with a more imaginative and exotic way of creating art.

One thing that was confusing for me was the idea about hyperreality, which is defined as exaggerated in comparison to reality. In the article it says that "Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real." How exactly is this supposed to be interpreted? What is the difference between reality and imaginary in this context? Is it trying to say that people think of Disney characters as real, when in reality they are simply imaginary?

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