Post-Modernism is a late 20th century movement that departs from modernism through a distrust of grand theories and ideologies and a complex relationship with the notion of art. It emerged in the 1870s and was applied to various movements reacting against imperialist capitalism called modernism. Postmodern texts play with meaning and acknowledge many potential readings by a literate audience. Literary postmodernism was established with the journal "boundary 2" in 1972, featuring figures like David Antin who exposed postmodernist ideas in poetry and music arose from minimalism in the 1970s as composers reacted to atonal modernism with simpler textures and harmonies.

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2. Dictionary Definition of Post-Modern ‘ a late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.” ‘