Postmodern multiplicity claims were already the idiom of 1905 Mitteleuropa Modernism

Evidence

The first passage comes from a talk given by the art critic Suzy Gablik in Los Angeles in 1987, the second was written by the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1905. Both depict the world as plural and polysémie, but for Gablik such a view is distinctive to Postmodern art. A conception of reality of ultimately Nietzschean provenance which was fairly widespread among the intelligentsia of Mitteleuropa at the end of the last century and which is often present in the work of major Modernist figures such as Hofmannsthal is presented as peculiarly Postmodernist. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 69

Categorization

• XREF: This genealogical move — exposing a supposedly postmodern motif as late-nineteenth-century Modernist — parallels the counter-historical method Foucault analyzed in Hotman and Boulainvilliers, relevant to the reading purpose.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘the shock of the old’ — cataloguing allegedly postmodern doctrines that were fully formed by 1905 in Mitteleuropa, from Hofmannsthal to Loos.