Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Modernism in Art, Literature, and Political Theory

Both avant-gardism and modernism responded to the increasing commodification of Western culture, the one by somehow decorrupting or extracting the otherness out of the commodified object to produce art, the other by fleeing the commodified object altogether in quest of art as 'pure form'.


"Modernism in Art, Literature, and Political Theory," Walter L. Adamson
2003

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