Altermodern

1. INTRODUCTION In the 21st century there was an emerging movement of art Postmodernism (Palmer 2014). Postmodernism was derived from its predecessor modernism (Palmer 2014). Palmer (2014) stated that postmodernism has too many complex ideologies and cannot be defined. Nevertheless, there was a claim by Nicolas Bourriaud that postmodernism has ended and divided to post-postmodernism (Altermodern 2009). The following essay will contrast against Bourriaud’s claim. It will provide brief historical characteristics of postmodernism and also give inside contextualisation of Bourriaud’s overview theory on Altermodernism. Furthermore, the essay enhances the argument using the post-posmodernism thesis and integrating the investigations on visual artefact,…