Appearance Quote by Craig Owens

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs…

— Arnold Aronson

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

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 word 'image' is in bad repute because we have thoughtlessly believed that a drawing was a tracing, a copy, a second thing, and…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear…

— Daniel B. Shapiro

I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part of the…

— Gregory Crewdson

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

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

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

— Andrew Eldritch