Postmodernism

philosophical and artistic movement
Intangible art_movement Q47783
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Summary

Postmodernism is an art movement[1]. Postmodernism ranks in the top 2% of art movement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,841 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: cultural movement[3]
  • Founder: Charles Jencks[4], Christopher Alexander[5]
  • Commons category: Postmodernism[6]
  • Start time: 1940[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Postmodernism[8]
  • Partially coincident with: post-avant-garde[9]
  • Topic has template: Template:Postmodernism[10]
  • Different from: Postmodernism[11], Postmodernity[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]
  • P14541: 2TSclh[14]

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Influence

Things named for Postmodernism include Postmodern Jukebox[15], a cover band[16], founded in 2011[17].

Why It Matters

Postmodernism has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Postmodernism is known by 115 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Postmodernism has been cited as an influence by post-anarchism[20], an anarchist school of thought[21].

Entities named for Postmodernism include Postmodern Jukebox[15], a cover band[16], founded in 2011[17].

FAQs

Who did Postmodernism influence?

Postmodernism has been cited as an influence by post-anarchism[20].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → postmodernism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: postmodernism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948988|postmodernism (#289948988)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2TSclh
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 16w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Krottenhill
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Factgrid item id: Q1790057, adds FactGrid ID"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007961-postmodernismus-kultura
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007961-postmodernismus-kultura, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → art movement, cultural movement
    Different from → Postmodernism, Postmodernity
    Start time → +1940-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Topic has template → Template:Postmodernism
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 12236, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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