D.L. Dusenbury

When did postmodernism begin?

Stuart Jeffries dates it precisely to 13 August 1971, when Nixon’s closed-door meeting in Washington led to America’s abandonment of gold-backed currencies

Stuart Jeffries describes the morphing of Brixton lad David Bowie into the ‘Thin White Duke’ of late-1970s Berlin. [Getty Images]

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