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Article: Fear and loving in Las Vegas. (concept of pastiche in postmodernism)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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Postmodernism concludes that artistic style, genre, and technique have finite combinations and that all the possible amalgamations have been exhausted, leaving only pastiche as a means of assembling what is ostensibly art. As delineated by Fredric Jameson in Post-modernism and Consumer Society, pastiche is a key component in a new aesthetic which is actually the death of aestheticism in the arts. Pastiche is a re-assemblage of former practices and procedures, to borrow--which is, after all, all I can do in postmodernism--a title from Trinh Minh-ha. It is simply the reiteration of dead styles, the result of the eradication of individualism, auteurs, personalities, and ...