Anti-art or ante-art? -- Monumental art or submonumental art? -- Eagleton and the apocalyptic fallacy -- Introducing the B-effect -- Introducing the C-effect -- Deploring/exploring hyperspace: Jameson and Cage -- Stupefaction or enlivenment? -- Benjamin and the loss of aura -- Barthes, Belsey, and the death of the author -- Bürger and the death of the avant-garde -- Bonito-Oliva, Baudrillard, and the collapse of the new -- Beckett, Brecht, and the attractions of antinarrative -- Beckett's poetics of failure/Brecht's poetics of Interrogation -- Beckett, Brecht, and the groan of the text -- Warhol and the grin of the text -- Eagleton, Jameson, and dehistoricized culture -- Cage, Kostelanetz, and value judgments -- Jameson, Rauschenberg, and Ryman -- Cage and consumption -- Collective narrative and the struggle with simulacra -- Depersonalized culture or repersonalized culture? -- Cage and the antilogic of the text.
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This ground-breaking work draws upon the authors interviews with leading postmodern artists, including Baudrillard, Beckett, Cage and Glass. It offers a challenging and positive view of postmodern culture.