Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also post-modern, post modern, by 1919, in frequent use from 1949, from post- + modern.\n\nBut it has been only during the later decades of the modern era -- during that time interval that might fairly be called the post-modern era -- that this mechanistic conception of things has begun seriously to affect the current system of knowledge and belief; and it has not hitherto seriously taken effect except in technology and in the material sciences. [Thorstein Veblen, "The Vested Interests and the Common Man," 1919]\n
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\nSo much for the misapplied theory which has helped set the artist's nerves a-quiver and incited him to the extremes of post modern art, literary and other.
[Wilson Follett, "Literature and Bad Nerves," "Harper's," June 1921]
\nOf architecture from 1940s; specific sense in the arts emerged 1960s (see postmodernism).Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of postmodern English)
Usage examples of "post-modern".
Now, standing on her doorstep at dawn, all mauled and bloodshot after a night with Dominique-Louise, he would encounter a brilliant anatomist of contemporary culture or a meticulous dissecter of post-modern mores or (more simply) a strangely compelling new voice.
Within a few years, and aided by his beloved Margarete (cleverly incarnated as a sort of late medieval executive a la Martha Stewart, who runs her father's manufacturing empire with nary a hair out of place), Faust has introduced Western Europe to just about every ill known to post-modern man.
Fueled by that conviction, and by their own youthful libidinous energy, and by a few cultural commentators who found this whole scenario fetchingly post-modern, they started a whole lot of second-generation bands and even a couple of record labels, of which Hammerdown Systems is the only one that didn't either go out of business or get turned into a wholly-owned subsidiary of an L.
Fueled by that conviction, and by their own youthful libidinous energy, and by a few cultural commentators who found this whole scenario fetchingly post-modern, they started a whole lot of second-generation bands and even a couple of record labels, of which Hammerdown Systems is the only one that didn’.