Routledge Revivals: In Modernity's Wake (1989)

The Ameurunculus Letters

Michael Phillipson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351995894
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Kunst
• Subtopic: Kunsttheorie & -kritik

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Dedication
• c/o The Place
• HOLDINGS
• wayin
• thuh lettaz
• Appendix: Art’s Body, A Largely Sedentary Masque for Three Personae
• wayout