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>It is funny while postmodernism is all about deconstruction and questioning existing values, social structures and authorities, when its authorities are questioned by an outsider, it becomes so defensive...

Not that funny in this case, since this has nothing to do with "postmodernism".

The artists that did those things we discussed were peak modernism. Dada/surealism (Duchamp), or nouveau réalisme (Klein) for example, and of course the entirety of data, lettrism, etc. have nothing at all to do with postmodernism.

In fact post-modernism, both when taken as a critical stance and as an artistic theory, was precisely against modernism (that those artists represented).



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