I barely understood what modernism meant, so when it came to listening to a lecture on postmodernism I was well and truly lost. I have done further reading and research into this topic, and I'm still confused as to what postmodernism is. I get the impression that postmodernism occurred after the modernist movement, and consisted of escaping the "double-mindedness of Modernism by being thorough in its criticism by extending it to religion as well as theology" according to J. M. Thompson.
Postmodernism began as a reaction to Modernists attempts to reduce things to their simplest and purest forms. Postmodernists would go that bit further and questioned everything, which would usually involve deconstructing work. A good example of this is Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. He took an everyday object and changed it's context by painting it and having it hung in an art gallery. He then went on to make many copies of his work, making the art just as mass produced as the supposed "artless" can.
Andy Warhol - Campbell's Soup Cans
Postmodernism is also the idea that absolutes don't exist, and that we aren't bound to what it "right" or "moral" because your truths and beliefs are true to you, and you alone, so rather than saying "this is the correct way to do things" like modernists were, postmodernists instead said "on whose authority?"
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