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Postmodern means life “after Modernism.” And Modernism refers to art made between about 1890 and 1970. Postmodernist thinkers view contemporary society as a fragmented world that has no coherent center, no absolutes, no cultural baseline. How do you capture the mosaic of the mixed-up Postmodern world on canvas or in a building? Artists and architects do it by borrowing from the past and by mixing old styles until they wind up with a new style that reflects contemporary society as well as the past societies it evolved from.