At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the
forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms,
and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the
condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to
the central concerns of recent scholarship on modernism and
contemporary culture: the problems of aesthetic autonomy and the
specific role of art in preserving a critical standpoint for
cultural production; the relationship between politics and the
category of the aesthetic; the problems of temporality and
contemporaneity; literary transnationalism; and the questions of
medium and medium specificity. Ranging across art forms, mediums,
disciplines, and geographical locations, essays address the
foundational questions that fuse modernism and the contemporary
moment: What is art? What is the relation between art and the
economy? How do art and technology interpenetrate and transform
each other? What is modernism's logic of time and contemporaneity,
and how might it speak to the problem of thinking genuine novelty,
or the possibility of an alternative to the current stage of
neo-liberal capitalism? What is modernism, and what is its history?
The book is thus committed to revising our understanding of what
modernism was in its earlier instantiations, and in accounting for
the current moment, addressing the problems raised by modernism's
afterlives and reverberations in the 20th and 21st centuries. The
volume includes essays that consider literature, sociology,
philosophy, visual art, music, architecture, digital culture,
television, and other artistic media. It synthesizes the most
recent thinking on modernism and contemporary culture and presents
a compelling case for what happens to literature, art, and culture
in the wake of the exhaustion of postmodernism. This book will be
of interest to those studying literature, visual art, media
studies, architecture, literary theory, modernism, and
twentieth-century and contemporary culture more generally.
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