Best places to start

• Postmodern visual art overview → clearly describes how Postmodern art is a reaction to Modernism
• Wikipedia entry on Contemporary Art
• About Contemporary Art, a Getty Museum Education resource
• A great overview of Postmodernism from Tate museum (England)
• Wikipedia entry on Postmodern art → see especially 'Defining Postmodern Art' and 'Movements in Postmodern Art'
• Smithsonian article about attempting to define the difference between 'modern' and 'postmodern'

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​Artwork behind title: Nick Cave's Soundsuit (detail), Crystal Bridges Museum