Modernism: Cure or disease?

Journal/Book: Crit Rev. 1997; 11: PO Box 10, Newtown, CT 06470-0010. Critical Review Foundation. 169-180.

Abstract: Donald Kuspit's The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist traces the therapeutic mission of modern art through its vise and decline into postmodern decadence. The problems Kuspit rightly Ends in such artists as Warhol and Koons, however, ave endemic to modernism itself: its diagnosis of bourgeois society as rick and in need of cure is fundamentally unsound. Tile modernist cure is, moreover worse than the purported disease. What modernists call kitsch is, in many cases, a healthy, tragic view of life. And while modernist metaphysics teaches the need for unmediated sensory experience and the inauthenticity of reproduction and representation, contemporary science shows these ideas to be without foundation.

Note: Article Turner F, Univ Texas, Richardson,TX 75083 USA

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