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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
holy shit it's hard to say
we haven't had the postmodern equivalent of leonardo yet
someone capable of, you know, colossal things-- there was joyce in literature (one could argue he's modern, but he heralded postmodernism with his infinite allusions), but anybody like that in art? such a... monster?
please name me one that fits the description.
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Joyce is modernist, so far as I can make out.
Postmodernism talks about the dissolution of grand narratives, by Lyotard's understanding. Which is why we don't have the monsters. We have the epic, and the (Kantian) sublime in a few corners of the mid-20th century onwards (loosely assuming postmodernism follows Duchamp), but very little of the grand narratives so beloved of your Boschs or whomever.
Postmodernism is a horrible cache-all applied erroneously - I was surprised to see you mention it, most people who apply it in its more 'proper' sense (although, obviously, effacement can apply to any concept) do so with extreme hesitation, especially in a forum such as this.
I'm fucking awful at remembering the names of artists, I have a habit of enjoying galleries more for the experience and the architecture. I spent most of yesterday afternoon gadding about galleries, and today I simply can't remember the names of anything I saw.