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The cultural processes of the Enlightenment and the subsequent development of industrial cultures informed the early ideas of Modernism and led to a world of rapid communication, fast cars and cities filled with skyscrapers and consumer goods. This book examines the way in which visual culture reflects its conceptual and physical origins in elite, and mass, cultural practices. The book introduces the ideas of Modernism and their post-modern evolution in a clear and engaging argument that links the development of visual culture to the social and political conditions in which it is produced. It establishes key concepts and critical terms of reference at the outset before taking the reader through the evolution of the 20th century's visual culture in a lively and approachable way.

		Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture by Christopher Crouch ISBN-10: 0312218303 ISBN-10: 0-312-21830-3 ISBN-13: 9780312218300 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-21830-0 Hardcover 1999-02-15 Palgrave Macmillan Find Lowest Price
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Book Description The cultural processes of the Enlightenment and the subsequent development of industrial cultures informed the early ideas of Modernism and led to a world of rapid communication, fast cars and cities filled with skyscrapers and consumer goods. This book examines the way in which visual culture reflects its conceptual and physical origins in elite, and mass, cultural practices. The book introduces the ideas of Modernism and their post-modern evolution in a clear and engaging argument that links the development of visual culture to the social and political conditions in which it is produced. It establishes key concepts and critical terms of reference at the outset before taking the reader through the evolution of the 20th century's visual culture in a lively and approachable way.
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Making sense of contemporary culture. This book provides a clearly understandable explanation of the complex ideas that have impacted on 20th century visual culture. I found the chapters on postmodernity and their relationship to modernity particularly interesting and useful. The author takes complex ideas and by putting them into a century long context unravels the contradictions in modernist culture very lucidly. Whether it is the art of William Morris, the Chinese Cultural Revolution or contemporary Australian multiculutralism that pushes your buttons, this book will ring the bell. (It will also get you through those semester assignments on the meaning of modernism in contemporary Britain!)