Postmodernism : it was a general trend in architecture, painting, sculpture and music that was characterized by the belief that the experience of modern art ( and abstractionism) was over. It resulted from the crisis of representation and gained a public overtone in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, producing a debate between a conservative trend ( for example, neo-historicism in architecture) and an experimental trend, which tried to take advantage of this crisis to foster a critique of authorship and the specificity of the medium. Continuation of the debate around the notion of “ simulacrum�
Neoconservative Postmodernism X Poststructuralist Postmodernism ( Deconstructivism- Jacques Derrida) Architects: Charles Moore, Philip Johnson, Robert Venturi, Michel Graves (neo-historicism) Painters: Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, David Salle, Sandro Chia, Anselm Kiefer, etc. Neoexpressionism: authorship, pictorial emphasis, quotation ( pastiche), and figurativism.