According to Jamesons's essay This image http://www.funnyphotos.net.au/images/mona-lisa-on-the-simpsons1.jpg is essentially the epitome of post-modernism. While discussing post modernism Jameson states "This is, however, precisely why it seems to me essential to grasp postmodernism not as a style but rather as a cultural dominant: a conception which allows for the presence and coexistence of a range of very different, yet subordinate, features." The Image above is just that. The Mona Lisa is pictured not only in Simpsons Animation, but the Landscape is replaced with what appears to be the city of springfield. The Image is not post modern because it is an updated animated version of the Mona Lisa, it is post-modern because it draws from aspects of an iconic image and inserts it into a far different context with far different connotations.
This piece of work to many may be shocking, after all, the Mona Lisa is considered one of the greatest pieces of art in the world. Some may even be offended by the trivial nature of this piece. Jameson believes this is not only very common in post modernism, but often times an integral part of the Post-Modernism. Jameson states "But in that case it is only consequent to reject moralising condemnations of the postmodern and of its essential triviality when juxtaposed against the Utopian “high seriousness” of the great modernisms: judgments one finds both on the Left and on the radical Right" While this may not be the most shocking of Images, Jameson certainly has a valid point especially with post modern Images like this http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/03/10/1003pistols_wideweb__470x324,0.jpg.
To some extent though, Jameson would almost be opposed to us trying to fit this image into a concrete label such as post-modern. Jameson after all said "Can we in fact identify some “moment of truth” within the more evident “moments of falsehood” of postmodern culture? And, even if we can do so, is there not something ultimately paralysing in the dialectical view of historical development proposed above; does it not tend to demobilise us and to surrender us to passivity and helplessness by systematically obliterating possibilities of action under the impenetrable fog of historical inevitability?" While he lays out a series of guidelines to explain what makes a text post-modern, he understands that at the end of the day, it's not what box the image fits in that matters, but rather the reaction that it evokes.