The Postmodern Animal: The Hunting Ground -- Beyond the Bottom Line
Sherrie Levine, "After Vincent van Gogh" 1993"Art is no longer in the service of cultural transformation; it is cultural transformation, an expanded field of little narratives.
"The effects art produces do not add up to a new truth, the little narratives do not form a metanarrative of cultural transformation, because they are aneconomic. There is no bottom line. Artistic invention does not produce anything that would not itself be subject to further displacement by aesthetic innovation. To put it another way, art is a series of little narratives: these narratives are not aiming at the condition of metalanguage, nor do they promise to reveal a new truth." Bill Reading, Introducing Lyotard, p. 73
"The condition of art is postmodern or paralogical when it both is and is not art at the same time (e.g Sherrie Levine's appropriative rephotographings of 'art photography')...it is the site of resistance to metalanguages...(it) seeks to testify to the event without recourse to the concept that would reduce its eventhood to unity or fixity." Bill Reading, p. 74.
This is where we find the impossible, this is where we hunt for the postmodern animal.
