Modernism Postmodernism
- Symbolism Dadaism
- Form Antiform
- Purpose Play
- Design Chance
- Distance Participation
- Synthesis Antithesis
- Selection Combination
- Depth Surface
- Mastery Exhaustion
- Art Object Process
- Hierarchy Anarchy
- Order Chaos
- Abstract Figurative
- Unity and coherence Fragmentation and contradiction
- Original Borrowed
- Universal Diversity
- External reality Multiple realities
- Origin Differences
- Metaphysics Irony
- Creation Deconstruction
- Presence Absence
- Genre Text
- Semantics Rhetoric
- Paradigm Syntagm
- Metaphor Metonymy
- Determinacy Indeterminacy
- Transcendence Immanence
- Paranoia Schizophrenia (mental disease)
- Symptom Desire
- Genital Polymorphous
- God the Father The Holy Ghost
This List has been formulated by coordinating prescribed reading and extra research from Hassen's table of differences between modernism and postmodernism. The prescribed reading are as follows:
Postmodernism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction and art criticism by Ingrid Stevens
Megg's History of Graphic Design Fifth edition by P. Meggs and A. Purvis
