Surpassing Modernity - Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society McNamara Andrew Queensland University of Technology AustraliaPaperback softback
Surpassing Modernity - Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society McNamara Andrew Queensland University of Technology AustraliaPaperback softback For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis…
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Surpassing Modernity - Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society McNamara Andrew Queensland University of Technology AustraliaPaperback softback
For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Another dilemma is that the urge to move away from, or beyond, modernity arises because it is viewed as difficult, even unsavoury. Discussion is stranded in an impasse between those who view the term modernity with automatic disdain-as deterministic, Eurocentric or imperialistic-and a booming interest that is renewing the study of modernism.
Instead, we should re-examine a legacy that continues to inform our artistic conceptions, our political debates, our critical justifications, even if that legacy is baffling and Yet, there has always been a view of modernity as somehow difficult to live with, and that has been said by figures we regard today as typical modernists.McNamara argues in this book that it is time to forget the quest to surpass modernity.