how ironic

“To be a modernist work is to be a work that takes its own conditions of possibility for its subject matter, that tests a certain number of the conventions of the practice it belongs to by modifying, jettisoning, or destroying them, and that in so doing renders the conventions or conditions thus tested explicit or opaque, revealing them to be nothing but conventions.”

- Thierry de Duve
Echoes of the Readymade: Critique of Pure Modernism

Can there ever truly be modernism?