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Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
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In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but…
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Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a…
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It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its…
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Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to…
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Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at…
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Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art…
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Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married…
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The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…
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As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,…
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Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
— David Foster Wallace
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
— Umberto Eco
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It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that…
— Fredric Jameson
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
— Vaclav Havel
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the…
— Alicia Ostriker
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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
— Donna J. Haraway
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their…
— David Foster Wallace
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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
— Joel Hodgson
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The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern…
— Jon Foreman
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Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people…
— Eric Van Lustbader
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Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading…
— Arthur Kroker
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