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Retro style is style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, music, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the recent past, typically 15–20 years old. ==Definition== The term ''retro'' has been in use since the 1970s to describe〔Woodham 2004〕 on the one hand new artifacts that self-consciously refer to particular modes, motifs, techniques, and materials of the past.〔Dermody, Breathnach 2009, p. 7〕 But on the other hand, some people (incorrectly) use the term to categorise styles that have been created in the past.〔Baker 2012, p. 622〕 Retro style refers to new things that display characteristics of the past. It is mostly the recent past that retro seeks to recapitulate, focusing on the products, fashions and artistic styles produced since the Industrial Revolution, of Modernity.〔Guffey 2006, p. 25〕 The word "retro" derives from the Latin prefix ''retro'', meaning backwards, or in past times. In France, the word ''rétro'', an abbreviation for ''rétrospectif'' gained cultural currency with reevaluations of Charles de Gaulle and France’s role in World War II. The French ''mode rétro'' of the 1970s reappraised in film and novels the conduct of French civilians during the Nazi occupation. The term ''rétro'' was soon applied to nostalgic French fashions that recalled the same period.〔Walker, John. (1992) ("Retro" ). ''Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945'', 3rd. ed.〕 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.〔Baudrillard. p. 43〕 The concept of nostalgia is linked to retro, but the bittersweet desire for things, persons and situations of the past has an ironic stance in retro style. Retro shows nostalgia with a dose of cynicism and detachment.〔Guffey 2006, p. 20〕 It is said that the desire to capture something from the past and evoke nostalgia is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the present.〔Dermody, Breathnach 2009, p. 15〕 “Retro” can be applied to several things and artefacts, for example forms of technological obsolescence (including, for instance, manual typewriters, cash registers, bulky hand-held cellphones, etc.) and also the resurrection of old computer games and the equipment on which they are played. But most commonly “retro” is used to describe objects and attitudes from the recent past that no longer seem “modern.” It suggests a fundamental shift in the way we relate to the past. Different from more traditional forms of revivalism, “retro” suggests a half ironic, half longing consideration of the recent past; it has been called an “unsentimental nostalgia”,〔E. Guffey 2006〕 recalling “modern” forms that are no longer current. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Retro style」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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