[Ads-l] Antedating of "Postmodern" and "Postmodernism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

postmodern (OED 1916)

1913 Bethany Messenger​ (Lindsborg, Kan.) 11 Oct. 1/1 (Newspapers.com)

A lucid exposition on the developement [sic] of art from post-modern times gradually lead [sic] up to our modern high conception of it.


postmodernist (OED, adj., 1926)

1916 Chicago Tribune Mar. 8/3 (Newspapers.com)

Futurist, post-modernist, and ultra-impressionistic painters are pikers.


Fred Shapiro

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