Reluctant Modernity : The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms
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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 stylesPainting & paintingsPaintings and paintingHistory 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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