Trompe l’oeil provides a vantage point outside modernism for criticizing representation.
Evidence
Trompe l’oeil — so old-fashioned yet so simulated and hyperreal (see Baudrillard himself on just such artifacts) — now offers an Archimedean point outside the modern, from which the (modernist) critique of representation can be staged in nonmodernist fashion. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 451
Categorization
- XREF: A concrete ‘Archimedean point’ example useful for the periodization/falsifiability test — here is a style that apparently escapes the modern/postmodern binary. — connects to: Critique of modernist discourse does not presume one right way of seeing — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 628; Critiques of modernism can be hijacked for reactionary cultural politics — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 178
- QUESTION: Is trompe l’oeil genuinely outside the modern, or just one more stylistic reflex that the cultural dominant absorbs? Tests whether postmodernism is a totalizing frame.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Critique of modernist discourse does not presume one right way of seeing — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 628; Critiques of modernism can be hijacked for reactionary cultural politics — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 178
Broader Connections
- Critiques of modernism can be hijacked for reactionary cultural politics
#complicates(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 178