Postmodern art decided to make revolutionary break with past and questioned previous theories known as “big narratives” of art, politics, economics and overall culture in order to create new theories. The big part of postmodern theory deals with the belief of preexistence of the art all around us. The artist is the one who can recognize these elements of art around as and synthesize them into the art work. This art work becomes object of interpretation which inevitably varies among different generations, social groups, national group, religious groups, and depends on some extent of the educational level of the observers and it is also different in the same individual in different times or environments. The different interpretations of the same art work give different meaning to it. Artists' creation is influenced by the time and place where he/she is creating, but interpretation of their work also depends on the context in which the art work is interpreted.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899- 1986,) (the Modern World) one of the greatest artist of modern time wrote in 1941short story titled “Pierre Menard, Author of the Don Quixote”. In his work, Borges made up the character of Pierre Menard, young French writer, who decided to “rewrite,” or to say recreate Don Quixote, the famous novel written by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616,) (The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes. Essays & Summaries) in the dark period of inquisition in the 17th century. Borges took the role of newspaper critic of the Menard’s work. Borges' idea was creative and “original” way to communicate his own point of view, his philosophy and his ideas about constant problem throughout the entire history of art: what is original, what is ...
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...ted in his short stories (5) and novels (6) magnificent, deeply artistic testimony of human suffering throughout the European history culminating in fascistic and communistic crimes. Despite Borges’s assertion (through Pierre Menard) Kis showed that there is no exercise of the intellect which is not in the final analysis useful.
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