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about. Anything you mat say about him is at the same time untrue, but when I think of him I get a sweet taste in my body”. (Robert Rauschenberg, 1973)

 

“In 1915 he arrived in New York...to invent the future of American art...The more he insisted his choices were made for amusement, without sense, without meaning or significance, the more it -became necessary to explain him. The more he has been explained, the more inexplicable he becomes”. (Kim Levin 1977)

 

“And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp...a movement for each person and open for everybody”. (Willem De Kooning 1951)

 

(Postmodernism and the en-gendering of Marcel Duchamp by Amelia Jones)

 

Judging by the quotations above Duchamp has been the obsessive object of desire for the art writers and the artists in the United States of America.

 

Here is the Duchamp’s own Quotation about his readymade works;”This Neo-dada...is an easy way out, and lives on what dada did. When I discovered ready-mades I thought to discourage aesthetics. In Neo-dada they have taken my ready-mades and found aesthetic beauty in them” (Marcel Duchamp 1962, Postmodernism and the en-gendering of Marcel Duchamp by Amelia Jones)

 

Barbara Kruger is another important name that gives one of the good examples of postmodern art, in her work she was addressing the issues of relations between women and the patriarchy, feminism and also alienating blandishments of the consumer world. Barbara Kruger’s work also become a touchstone for many feminists throughout the 1980s

 

One of the artist’s work called ‘your comfort is my silence’ she leaves up to the viewer to decode the gender identifications of the pronouns “your” and “my” marks out, self consciously. So the possibilities are that male with the hat in the image talking to a female or male viewer or the other way around the viewer male or female speaking back to the image, it recognizes that viewer needs both gender and the politics in order to confront it all.

 

Barbara Kruger,’ Your comfort is my silence’, 1981 Photograph with added text

 

56x40” (140x100cm) Private collection

 

“Barbara Kruger exhibition 1991” Mary Boone gallery

 

Last but not least I would like to give examples of the 21st century contemporary artists that their work falls in to the postmodern practice; works of Matthew Barney is intriguing, disturbing and hilarious at the same time and the works and writings of Matthew Coll本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。