A more critical reason for seeing post-modernism as just an extension of modernism is its relationship to capitalism. Postmodernism could be understood as the shift that cultural production and ideology took when capitalism evolved into neoliberalism. read more
In this way, postmodern artistic forms can be seen as an extension of modernist experimentation; however, others prefer to represent the move into postmodernism as a more radical break, one that is a result of new ways of representing the world including television, film (especially after the introduction of color and sound), and the computer. read more