Quotes of Postmodern - somelinesforyou

“ A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. ”

- Jean Francois Lyotard

“ Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay. ”

- Arthur Kroker

“ Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. ”

- Terry Eagleton

“ Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ”

- Elizabeth Wilson

“ Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ”

- Brad Holland
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