Postmodern Irony as Subversive Rhetorical Strategy.

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by analyzing Susan Dorothea White's painting, "The First Supper," as a subversive postmodern ironic reading of Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper." Suggests that subversive irony assumes distinctive and complex technical and theoretical characteristics, thereby creating multiple potential audiences. Concludes postmodern irony functions subversively for select audiences but hegemonically for others. (SR)