Rollin Retro Gemini Theme from Hedone Design
Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of “retro” style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc. has occurred from around the time of the industrial revolution to present day.
Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of “retro” style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc. has occurred from around the time of the industrial revolution to present day.
Shortly thereafter it was introduced into English by the fashion and
culture press, where it suggests a rather cynical revival of older but
relatively recent fashions. (Elizabeth E. Guffey, Retro: The Culture of
Revival, pp. 9-22). In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean
Baudrillard describes “retro” as a demythologization of the past,
distancing the present from the big ideas that drove the “modern” age.
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