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...very much like a coconut and heard his voice on the other end. He wanted to know why I had turned in 100 blank pages in lieu of a thesis. He then told me that my “stunt” would have been an acceptable, even admirable, postmodern stunt if I had turned in 40-60 blank pages. But words or no words, 100 pages was frightfully over the limit. When I woke up the next morning, I understood the insidious nature of my condition...
Sheng believes the themes of his show, beauty and fantasy, will give the show mass appeal despite its esoteric nature. “The show references a lot of photo discourse and theory, but it isn’t so postmodern that it’s difficult to understand,” he says. Sheng describes his photography, shot in locations from Barcelona to Wyoming, as “anti-grunge,” referring to the grunge movement that he says has “been the dominant force in fashion for 10 years. [In the early...
...Turner awards so amply demonstrated, today's British scene has degenerated into a media circus. Conceptual art has always been about ideas. For it to be interesting, though, the ideas have to be new. Tired ironic commentaries on consumer society are not good enough. For all the post-postmodern posturing, the center is really just an echo of artistic movements spawned in other cities decades ago. It is too much concept and too little art. Simply saying that the Palais de Tokyo is a "living laboratory of contemporary art" doesn't make...
Students Confused about Constructing their Identity in Today’s Problematized Postmodern America...
Dutch was a postmodern stunt that dumbfounded most critics. It also left a radioactive glow around the edges of Morris' reputation. Two years later, Theodore Rex offers Morris the chance to redeem himself by returning to the field of his first triumph. And let the record show that at no point in this book does Morris introduce himself into a subplot of the action. On the mid-September day in 1901 when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots...