What is Real?

What I get out of the article "Appropriation," by Rick Poynor, is that the Postmodern artists described are taking familiar subjects/systems of classification and are breaking them apart and taking a step back. By this I mean they are using their creative imagination to add new fictional/satirical meanings to something that already exists. The purpose of this is not necessarily to change reality, but to pose the question what if this were true?! Similar to our project in class, they are making up their own logic for certain systems of classification.
On the other hand, in "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder," Weschler writes about what wonder is and uses the New World as an example. To the Europeans the New World was "new" and "different," which was intriguing and made people wonder what was truthful about this new place. Until the period of Enlightenment, when science took over, artists drew pictures of what they thought the New World entailed. Throughout this period, organization was necessary in order to categorize systems of classification. Through organization, logical conclusions became factual. Therefore, in order for our class project to be successful we need to organize our logic in order for it to seem truthful.