Perhaps the only model for a break with the existing order would be carpet bombing. If Postmodern criticism makes any sense, one should not even talk about reinterpretation as a limit. Interpretation is all one has. Unfortunately, even Leja's nuanced account sometimes falls into demands for more. As I mean in elucidating the sublime, the mythic self will not go away without a fight.
Later artists build on each of the terms that went into the modernist sublime.
At the same time, they demythologize it, replacing cathedrals and chapels with Minimalist boxes and dung-laden Madonnas. In the process, they destroy the whole idea of the sublime pretty much for good. In English, cathedra also has connotations of a dead certainty, as in ex cathedra , or speaking from a pulpit. The certainty of Newman's public voice, like his earnest letters to the press, sounds far in the past. Pop and Postmodernism instead highlight the myth, so as to examine skeptically whether any culture can dispense with one.