The contemporaneity of modernism : literature, media, culture / edited by Michael D'Arcy and Mathias Nilges.

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English
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  • New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
  • ©2016
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1 online resource (xii, 235 pages)

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At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent scholarship on modernism and contemporary culture: the problems of aesthetic autonomy and the specific role of art in preserving a critical standpoint for cultural production; the relationship between politics and the category of the aesthetic; the problems of temporality and contemporaneity; literary transnationalism; and the questions of medium and medium specificity. Ranging across art forms, mediums, disciplines, and geographical locations, essays address the foundational questions that fuse modernism and the contemporary moment: What is art? What is the relation between art and the economy? How do art and technology interpenetrate and transform each other? What is modernism's logic of time and contemporaneity, and how might it speak to the problem of thinking genuine novelty, or the possibility of an alternative to the current stage of neo-liberal capitalism?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Introduction: the contemporaneity of modernism / Michael D'Arcy and Mathias Nilges
  • Part 1. Modernism's temporality
  • Abstract in concrete: brutalism and modernist half-life / C.D. Blanton
  • Our last September: climate change in modernist time / Douglas Mao
  • Time, modernism, and the contemporaneity of realism / David Cunningham
  • Part 2. Modernism's literary afterlives. Relative autonomy: Pierre Bourdieu and modernism / Andrew Goldstone
  • Impersonality and institutional critique / Sarah Brouillette
  • Impressionism after film / Jesse Matz
  • Involutions of the word: Lorrie Moore and Jonathan Letham / Joseph Brooker
  • Part 3. Modernism's global economies
  • The Fidget Manifesto: fast capital, the gesture, and growth in modernist culture / Enda Duffy
  • "The highways of empire": geopolitics, modernism, and committed reading.
ISBN
  • 9781317423652 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1317423658 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781315689272 ((ebook))
  • 1315689278 ((ebook))
  • 9781317423645
  • 131742364X
OCLC
927103640
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781315689272
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  • 40025574669
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