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Postmodernism
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postmodernism
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Late 20th-century movement rejecting modernism's austerity and functionalism — embracing historical references, irony, complexity, and pluralism; in architecture, Robert Venturi and Michael Graves added ornament and historical allusion back to buildings stripped bare by the Bauhaus
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