These are then not modernist (grand) narratives, histories of aesthetic rationality, universal and fixed, but local and temporal (small) narratives: fluid stories, continually narrated.
This modernist division is inadequate, for it fails to account for the interconnected and nonlinear process of archaeological knowledge construction.
But, as an essentially modernist philosophy, postmodern aesthetic still refrains from sentimentality.
To this should be added that the alienation expressed through modernist rupture cannot simply be reversed.
This may have been a manifestation of his oft-interpreted alienation from modern, and modernist, thought.
It is here that the work proves such an interesting mixture of the conceptual and the musical, of alienating modernist idiosyncracy and involving popular spectacle.
Nor-tec is a modernist cultural manifestation that engages the mainstream but is also critical of it.
Modernist self-reflexivity was as much a part of mass culture as it was of the so-called fine arts from the turn of the century onwards.
