Understanding Postmodernism, #36

CONCEPT

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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Ignoring the artists' claims for the semantic significance of their formal experiments, Clement Greenberg cast them as seeking autonomous, self-contained states earned by following the Kantian imperative to concentrate on the properties distinctive to the medium.

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Charles Altieri, "Modernism and Postmodernism," The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993), 792-796.

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