Claire Bishop: Déjà Vu: Contemporary Art and the Ghosts of Modernism

One of the most persistent themes in contemporary art since 1989 has been the proliferation of work that addresses ‘Modernist utopias’: art that takes twentieth-century architecture and design as a starting point for contemporary sculpture, installation, photography, video and research. It seems ironic that Modernism, the most futurist of movements, is now the subject matter … Continue reading Claire Bishop: Déjà Vu: Contemporary Art and the Ghosts of Modernism