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Reluctant Modernity - The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms (Paperback, New)
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Reluctant Modernity - The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms (Paperback, New)
Series: Postmodern Social Futures
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In this book, Ales Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to
postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art
conceived as yet another source of rootless, circulating fictions.
Inspired by the melancholy critical theory of Adorno and Benjamin,
and drawing on Weber, Debeljak shows that with the dawning of
modernity, art was made autonomous. Art production was effectively
emancipated from the exigencies of everyday life and its guiding
ideal of purposive rationality. The Renaissance brought on the
first stage in a long, gradual withdrawal of art from the hitherto
dominant mythological, religious, and aristocratic legitimization.
Yet it was not until the 18th century that art assumed the separate
status of a commodity to be bought and sold. However, art paid a
price for its autonomy; through commodification art production
ultimately become an extension of capitalist logic and control. 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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