1st Edition

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

By Michael Phillipson Copyright 1989
    203 Pages
    by Routledge

    203 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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