Warhol’s late work embodies full postmodernism

Evidence

With the later Warhol, indeed, a full postmodern has unquestionably arrived: nonchalant crossing of forms — graphics, painting, photography, film, journalism, popular music; calculated embrace of the market; heliotropic bending towards media and power. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 244

Categorization

• DEFINE: Tightly characterizes what ‘full postmodernism’ means: formal cross-pollination, market embrace, and magnetism toward media and power.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236; Warhol equated waking life to a television broadcast that never pauses — Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 21

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #complicates (0.78) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236