Style pluralism

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Style pluralism describes the condition that in an epoch / phase in one and the same social context different styles are considered contemporary.

In particular, the term is the name for the historicism of the 19th century and the situation at the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th century (transition to modernity), the many parallel styles, primarily in architecture , painting , music and the performing arts .

The term is also used in other contexts, because it is also suitable e.g. B. to describe the situation in the context of postmodernism and in contemporary clothing fashion (or other fashions ).

The styles of fin de siècle , art nouveau , impressionism and symbolism belong to the pluralism of modernism . In the area of new music there is also the term polystilistics .