Postmodern art’s thwarting of perceptual unity differs from conceptual art’s critique of representation

Evidence

This is an imperative, as we have suggested, which is systematically thwarted by the “work” itself (if one can still continue to use that word), but not, as has also been suggested, primarily in order to foreground and rebuke our own (Kantian) longing for the form of the “whole” or the “complete thing,” or the “work,” or “representation” itself, as is the case with analogous frustration in so-called conceptual art. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 387

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the postmodernist frustration of our longing for the ‘whole’ from conceptual art’s analogous frustration — a precise distinction useful for the parody/pastiche task.
• XREF: connects to: Appropriating mass-media imagery redefined representation in 1970s visual art; Postmodern perception holds incompatible coordinates without unifying them — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 794; Segmented contemporary artwork pieces do not demystify one another — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 408 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Appropriating mass-media imagery redefined representation in 1970s visual art; Postmodern perception holds incompatible coordinates without unifying them — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 794; Segmented contemporary artwork pieces do not demystify one another — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 408 (+3 more)