Like Emins, they themselves are the spectacle. Sincerity and stardom My visit to SoHo felt like a step through a time warp. Schnabel had brought together his famous plate paintings. Elsewhere, Chia showed his latest. Talk about the art world's spectacle.
Postmodernism typically stands for irony, political awareness, or cynicism.
It means the heritage of Cindy Sherman . How strange, to remember the very first postmodern spectacles. The events that shattered the old consensus pretended to almost pathetic sincerity. Schnabel actually took up his dishware in 1978, but it got big publicity only after George Baselitz , Chia, and others had brought their Neo-Expressionism from abroad. The simultaneous work of two continents hit Modernism doubly hard.