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Postmodernism vs Realism - What's the difference?

postmodernism | realism |

As nouns the difference between postmodernism and realism

is that postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

postmodernism

English

(wikipedia postmodernism)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

    • realism

    English

    (wikipedia realism)

    Noun

  • A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
  • An artistic representation of reality as it is
  • (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
  • (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them

    • Antonyms

    * (doctrine concerning universals) nominalism

    See also

    * idealism

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