“The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.”
Umberto Eco
Modern and Modernism
Question:
In a postmodern world, do you think its possible to create art that overtly references Jesus or the biblical story without some degree of ironic distance? What do you make of Andy Warhol's "Jesus" images? Are they an ironic commentary, genuine icons for an image saturated society, or something completely different?
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