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postmodern design: a standalone construct

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Design history

design from the 1970s and 1980s that rejected modernist purity in favour of historical quotation, irony, ornament and colour.

In design history, postmodern design refers to design from the 1970s and 1980s that rejected modernist purity in favour of historical quotation, irony, ornament and colour. This meaning comes from Adamson (2011) in Postmodernism.[1]

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References

Adamson, G., & Pavitt, J. (Eds.). (2011). Postmodernism: Style and subversion, 1970-1990. V&A Publishing. ISBN 9781851776627

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