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Postmodern Aesthetics (Part 2)

AND YOU THOUGHT ART WAS SUBJECTIVE BEFORE!

“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.”

—Jackson Pollock

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Postmodernism in art can refer to a few different things. As an adjective, postmodern is sometimes nothing more than a lazy synonym for eclectic or weird. More precisely, postmodern art signifies a reaction against the modern ...

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