Postmodernists therefore do not simply support aesthetic ‘isms’, or avant-garde movements, such as minimalism or conceptualism (from which work like Andre’s bricks emerged). They have a distinct way of seeing the world as a whole, and use a set of philosophical ideas that not only support an aesthetic but also analyse a ‘late capitalist’ cultural condition of ‘postmodernity’. This condition is supposed to affect us all, not just through avant-garde art, but also at a more fundamental level, through the influence of that huge growth in media communication by electronic means which Marshall
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