Jameson on Postmodernism

In Fredrick Jameson's essay, Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, he lays out the differences in culture between the modern and postmodern periods. He is concerned with the cultural expressions and aesthetics associated with the different movements. In order to provide support for his arguement, Jameson draws evidence from the fields of architecture and art.
Jameson feels that postmodernism is concerned with all surface and has no substance. He says that what follows modernism, which is postmodernism, "becomes empirical, chaotic, and heterogeneous" (1). Jameson characterizes the pieces of postmodernism as lacking of depth and that the products of the era have a more free-floating and impersonal feel to them.
When it comes to describing Vincent Van Gogh's Peasant Shoes, Jameson interprets the piece as a mix of the Earth and the World and the "meaning-endowment of history and of the social" (59). The boots represent the literal hard work but also represent the life of the owner of the boots. The piece signifies the society in which the owner lived and even holds the history of the worker and her family and lifestyle.
In Andy Warhol's postmodernist piece, Diamond Dust Shoes, however, Jameson has a much different view. He feels that the piece is more representative of a fad than a meaning and is void of rich social context. Unlike Van Gogh's work, Jameson believes that the shoes used in DDS are a "random collection of dead objects, hanging together on the canvas like so many turpips". He feels that the shoes lack an "earlier life-world as the piles of shoes left over from Auschwitz" (60). Jameson see's all postmodern work like this; void of history and unable to create emotion unlike the high modernism that was once produced.