Routledge Revivals: In Modernity's Wake (1989)

<p>First published in 1988 this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art culture and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed. The letters are written on art’s behalf to a range of institutions and individuals and have as their recurring concern the relation between art culture and representation — both art as representation and how art is represented to and for the surrounding culture. They explore the context and viability of art through a range of themes including writing the aestheticisation of everyday life style design pleasure fragmentation hyphenation technology and the museum — drawing on materials from the visual arts music literature post-structuralism contemporary criticism philosophy and sociology.</p>