Routledge Revivals: In Modernity's Wake (1989)

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 arts 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.