Segmented contemporary artwork pieces do not demystify one another

Evidence

The parts and segments of these “works” or “texts” do not demystify one another, I am tempted to say (although Simpson’s art comes the closest, and the “feminist” components of Cypis’s — that is to say, the pieces of women’s bodies — ensure a certain obligatory effort at radical reading). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 408

Categorization

• DEFINE: Negative definition: these fragmented works differ from deconstructive painting in that the parts don’t unsettle each other’s claims.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodern art severs images from meaning into random nonrelational fragments — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 67; Representational media blur dialectical method by sliding form into content — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 46; Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodern art severs images from meaning into random nonrelational fragments — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 67; Representational media blur dialectical method by sliding form into content — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 46; Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern art’s thwarting of perceptual unity differs from conceptual art’s critique of representation #complicates (0.73) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 387