On the postmodern Age

We live in the age of postmodernism. What does that mean? With a call for essays, we asked for proposals for a better understanding. At the same time, we were looking for posts that show the arts have processed and are still processing the change from the modern to the postmodern selfconception of man, which has been described by philosophy since the 1950s to today. This special issue thus demonstrates how architects, designers and artists have reacted to the new socio-political relevant concepts of postmodernism. With contributions of Simone Kraft on architecture, Arianna Fantuzzi on self-portraits, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen on visual arts in the 80s, Anna Kristensson on design, Iris Laner on postmodern theory and the work of Jeff Wall, Chirstiane Wagner on postmodern avatars and Martina Sauer on the deconstruction of the familiar in postmodern theory and the work of Karin Kneffel