The Troubles With Postmodernism

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ART, PHILOSOPHY, ART CRITICISM AND THEIR INTERRELATIONS

The postmodern syndrome

This chapter is divided into four parts. The introduction attempts to define what I understand by art, philosophy and art criticism. I know that such an operation really requires a separate book, but my aim here is limited to an attempt to provide a synthesized rendering of some of the paradigms predominating in our cultural heritage for the past two or three centuries. The second part deals with the modern syndrome in the twentieth century and is divided into two subparts: the first embracing the era from the fin-de-siècle until the middle of the 1950s, the second covering the period from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. I shall try to explain why I think it ...