 | Routledge Revivals: In Modernity's Wake (1989): The Ameurunculus Letters Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Language & Literature; Social Sciences; Philosophy; Literature; Art & Visual Culture; Music; Visual Arts; Sociology & Social Policy; History of Art; Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics; Theory of Art; Aesthetics; Sociology of Culture; Western Music Styles (Early & Classical); Fine Art; 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. Michael Phillipson |
