Definition of Post-Modernism through the Semiotics of Sculpture in Urbanistic Room

Abstract

We assume that we still lack a positive understanding of post-modernism as such. Since Lyotard it has been stated and said many times what „post-modernism is NOT.“ It is NOT classicism, it is NOT reclassification, it is NOT a school in science, it is NOT a style and first of all it is NOT – modernism. Thus the issue is to some extent what post-modernism – positively IS. I think that it is a paradigmatic state of affairs that, for instance, it was commonly accepted in the lobbies of the 1st International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication (Nov, 2011, Lemesos, Cyprus) and formulated to me in a personal chat with Miltos Frangopoulos that postmodernism is two things – (a) deconstruction; and (b) tolerance towards alternative truths.