WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN AESTHETICS? ANALYSE THE WORK OF AN ARTIST/WRITER IN ANY MEDIUM. HOW IS THIS WORK POSTMODERN?

Through an examination of postmodernism theory it can evidently be seen that it is fundamentally an aesthetic that has derived through the cultural movement of modernism. Through the differences between the movements, however, the characteristics of postmodern aesthetics, such as fragmentation of the individual subject, impossibility for originality, pastiche, self reflexivity, appropriation and bricolage, can be clearly distinguished….(short extract)