Everythingsbeendoneism? Perhaps there is another term I’m not familiar with.
P.S. I don’t personally subscribe to this view, but am just wondering what to call it . . . cultural exhaustion? 🤷♂️
EDIT: I should say that I don’t necessarily subscribe to this view; it kind of depends on what mood I’m in, to what degree I’m projecting my own feelings of old age and fatigue onto the outside world, and so forth.
Art is based on what came before it - even if it’s created explicitly to break with the tradition, it can still be described as the opposite of something that already exists. Since we as humans can only think in terms of what we already know, then of course the cultural vocabulary will eventually be exhausted - whatever innovation can be obtained is derived solely on how do we combine the colors and sounds and words we have.