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Has Modernism Failed?

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"One of the first books by a serious art critic to confront the social situation of contemporary art, to describe the resonance between the myriad styles, forms, and attitudes of contemporary art and the moral and economic setting in which this art occurs."--Back cover

Author(s): Suzi Gablik
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Year: 1984

Language: English
Pages: 133
City: New York

Introduction: the waning of the modern age -- Individualism: art for art's sake, or art for society's sake? -- Anxious objects: modes of cultural resistance -- Bureaucratization: the death of the avant-garde -- Pluralism: the tyranny of freedom -- Secularism: the disenchantment of art (Julian Schnabel paints a portrait of God) -- Graffiti in well-lighted rooms -- Has modernism failed?