Reluctant Modernity : The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms

Name: Reluctant Modernity
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9780847685837
Price: 7550 KES
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ISBN: 9780847685837

by Aleš Debeljak

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Postmodern Social Futures

ISBN-10 0847685837

ISBN-13 9780847685837

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Rowman & Littlefield

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 2nd, 1998

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 325 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 14.70 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: History of art / art & design styles Painting & paintings Paintings and painting History of art

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In this book, Aleš Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art was conceived as yet another source of rootless, circulating fictions. The deterioration of bourgeois liberal individualism into the narcissism of mass society accompanied the decomposition of art into simplified mass art and commercialized kitsch. Maintaining its formal autonomy (museums, galleries, etc.), its content became the universal object of indirect corporate exploitation. Today postmodern art, argues Debeljak, is subjected to infinite reproducibility, total integration into mass society, and political resignation-no longer representing an alternative reality. The postmodern institution of art thus cannot be simply cured of modern structures and assumptions, but is, instead, fated to a continuous and painful relationship with modernity.

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