reality into images. But the "post" in postmodernism also serves a differentiating purpose; that is, postmodernism is in many ways a reaction against the styles and attitudes to be found in many of the masterpieces of High Modernism. The formerly subversive works of Modernism, which were believed to be shocking or disruptive during their time, were quickly subsumed and institutionalized into academic and intellectual discourse, thus losing a lot of their initial bite. Just as the Modernists
             ...