Routledge Revivals: In Modernity''s Wake (1989) - The Ameurunculus Letters

List of contents

Watin; thuh lettaz; To the Post-man Telex to Noah To Paolo Uccello, c/o S.S. Sprit of Florence To Dr. Kopf, The Director, The Multi-National Museum of the Art of the Now To Martin Heidegger, c/o Up There To Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, c/o Sublime Cottage, The Beyond To The Chairman, National Board of Garden Guardians, Memo: re Your Annual ‘Glory of the Garden’ Art Competition To Roland Barthes, c/o Les Champs Elysées To Dr. Stufa, the Stufa Azurotherapy Clinic To Ma, (M/S Enid Ameurunculus), 763 Whortleberry Avenue, Northern District, Subsuburborough To Jack Derippa, c/o Abroad; Appendix: Art’s Body, A Largely Sedentary Masque for Three Personae; wayout

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Phillipson, Phillipson Michael
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781138245273
• ISBN: 978-1-138-24527-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Sociology, Europe, Theory of art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, History of Art, Modernism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, The arts: general topics