Editing Postmodern art (section)

===Appropriation art and neo-conceptual art===
{{Main|Appropriation art|Neo-conceptual art}}
[[File:Taaffe - We Are Not Afraid.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Philip Taaffe]], We Are Not Afraid'', 1985]]
In his 1980 essay ''The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism,'' [[Craig Owens (critic)|Craig Owens]] identifies the re-emergence of an [[allegorical]] impulse as characteristic of postmodern art. This impulse can be seen in the [[appropriation art]] of artists such as [[Sherrie Levine]] and [[Robert Longo]] because, "Allegorical imagery is appropriated imagery."<ref>Craig Owens, ''Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture'', London and Berkeley: University of California Press (1992), p54</ref> Appropriation art debunks modernist notions of artistic genius and originality and is more ambivalent and contradictory than modern art, simultaneously installing and subverting ideologies, "being both critical and complicit."<ref>Steven Best and Douglas Kellner, ''The Postmodern Turn'', Guilford Press, 1997. p186. {{ISBN|978-1-57230-221-1}}</ref>