关键词: 后现代主义, 多元主义, 新表现主义, 哈尔·福斯特, 阿瑟·丹托

Abstract: While pluralism is considered politically correct today, this article tries to describe the trajectory of anti-pluralist criticism through some famous authors of October, specifically Hal Foster, who edited the seminal Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. In the beginning of the 1980s, Foster categorized two types of postmodernism, one being the postmodernism of reaction and neo-conservatism, the other being postmodernism of resistance and post-structuralism. Aligning with the latter of the two types, major authors of October published a series of important essays to criticize “mainstream postmodernist art,” especially neo-expressionist paintings. However, during the same period, Arthur Danto claimed "the end of art," embracing a new era of pluralism. Thus, the dispute between anti-pluralism and pluralism becomes one of the key topics in the debate over postmodernist culture, and this article explores this dispute through case studies of Foster and Danto.

Key words: postmodernism, pluralism, neo-expressionism, Hal Foster, Arthur Danto