THE POSTMODERN

& THE

POSTCOLONIAL

THE POSTMODERN…

As “the cultural logic of late capitalism”

Frederic Jameson

ORTHE POSTMODERN…

As the end of all great narratives

Jean-Paul Lyotard

Remember, the deified Pollock…

“god is dead”

Friedrich Nietszche, 1882

Sigmar Polke, Hope is…Wanting to Pull Clouds, 1993

Sigmar Polke, Hope is…Wanting to Pull Clouds, 1993

PASTICHE A rubble of distinct and unrelated signifiers” Jameson

Sigmar Polke, Hope is…Wanting to Pull Clouds

Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Rainbow, 1810

POLKE vs SCHNABEL et al(at least) 2 kinds of postmodernism

“postmodernism as ANTIMODERNISM?”

Julian Schnabel, What to do with a corner in Madrid, 1980

Julian Schnabel, What to do with a corner in Madrid, 1980

David Salle, 1980

NEOCONSERVATIVE postmodernism

VS. TEXTUAL

postmodernism

Sherrie Levine, After Joan Miro, 1978,

After Walker Evans, 1979

Jenny Holzer, Living Series, 1982

Jenny Holzer, Protect Me, 1986 and Fathers, 1982

Barbara Kruger, 1982

From the POSTMODERN

to THE

POSTCOLONIAL

Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa

Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa

Indonesian wax-resist fabrics imported to West Africa by the Dutch

Yinka Shonibare, The Swing

William Kentridge, Swinging Lady, 1986

William Kentridge,

Colonial Landscapes 1995-6

William Kentridge,

Drawing from Colonial

Landscapes, 1995-6

William Kentridge Drawing from

Colonial Landscapes, 1995-6

Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon leading an Army across the Alps, 2005

Jacques-Louis David

and original by Jacques-Louis David, 1801

Venus Hottentot, (Saartjie Baumann) 1824

Barbara Kruger, 1989

Renee Cox, Venus Hottentot, 2000

Renee Cox, Hottentot Venus,

Renee Cox, Venus Hottentot, 2000

Renee Cox, Hottentot Venus,

Renee Cox, Venus Hottentot, 2000

Renee Cox, Hottentot Venus

David LaChapelle photograph of Lil Kim for cover of Interview magazine

Jimmie Durham, On Loan from the Museum of the American Indian, 1985

James Luna, The Artifact Piece 1987-90

David Salle, 1998