Novelty is defined and something that is new or unusual. Under this definition I think that both Laurie Simmons and Meyer Vaisman displayed much novelty in their work. They dipped into regions of art that no one had previously explored. From creating an entirely artificial universe to satirizing every type of person using stuffed turkeys as a means of doing this they both have created an original form of expression. While Simmons does not deal …showed first 75 words of 437 total…

…showed last 75 words of 437 total…search for new ideas should not automatically lead to the assumption that postmodernism is void of the same quest. On the contrary, actually. There is potential for so many new ideas that there is no way art can already be at the point where there is no choice but to regress; repeat history. In light of that, I think that every successive idea from here will have some level of novelty for quite some time.