more post-modernist artwork

This set of readings/videos showcased four more post-modern artists, all of whom used pre-existing objects as the raw material for their work.  Jessica Stockholder's work incorporated brightly colored plastic items, Fred Wilson collected chachkis of all kinds, which he used to compose his work, and Arturo Herrera did the same, but with images that he manipulated in his collages.  Matthew Richie's work borrows in a slightly different way.  He translated his own line drawing into various different media, a process which eventually culminated in cage-like metal sculptures.  These artists simultaneously prove and disprove post-modern thought.  Essentially, their work is the very definition of post-modern art, yet by compiling these objects and arranging them the way these artists do, they are creating something new.  It reminds me of the musician Girl Talk.  He mashes up slivers of various songs to make his albums, arranging them the way other musicians arrange notes.  The bottom line is that these songs and the pieces created by those four artists are not stale because of their origins.  These post-modernist methods yield modern results with a modern optimism.