Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms

by Aleš Debeljak

In this book, Ales Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art was conceived as yet another source of rootless, circulating fictions. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847685837
• ISBN13: 9780847685837
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"