Crossing the Postmodern Divide By Albert Borgmann University of Chicago, 184 pages, $19.95 Everything we seem to know about the postmodern condition is what it isn`t-mainly that it isn`t modernism ...

I’ve been squabbling about realism lately, with myself as well as with others. I don’t mean realism in the colloquial sense, meaning hardheadedness, or political realism, which assumes we’re ...

Could you spot a postmodern pad from an Art Deco masterpiece? While Australia's architectural history doesn't stretch back as far as some centuries-old cultures, our design past reflects global ...

The distinctive look of Art Deco originated in France in the early 20th century but, as Burke says, quickly spread around the world. "What it was trying to do was step away from looking backwards ...