The Imaginary Solution

Abstract

rom the want, quipped David Antin, you get the postmodernism deserve.' True enough, as the last quarter century has shown; Antin's dynamic nicely encapsulates the logic of canons, in which interventions resonate both forward and backward, as lineage and precedent adjust to accommodate and account for apparent ruptures or discontinuities. But Antin's instant proverb is also a good reminder that whatever the dominant canon might be-whatever it is that comes to mind at the thought of modernism or postmod-