Art Quote by Arnold Aronson

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the…

— Walter Darby Bannard

If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic…

— Arnold Aronson

The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the…

— Craig Owens

The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the…

— Richard Misrach

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of…

— Jean Baudrillard

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and…

— Will Self

Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation,…

— Douglas Crimp

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

— Scott Turow

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

— Andrew Eldritch

Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived…

— Geoffrey Batchen

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe