
Publication details
Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag
Place: Wiesbaden
Year: 2007
Pages: 37-50
ISBN (Hardback): 9783835060715
Full citation:
, "What is "postmodern" — a quarter of a century after?", in: Moderne begreifen, Wiesbaden, Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2007


What is "postmodern" — a quarter of a century after?
pp. 37-50
in: Christine Magerski, Robert Savage, Christiane Weller (eds), Moderne begreifen, Wiesbaden, Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2007Abstract
At the time of my arrival in Australia in January 1978 I still stood — together with my late husband Ferenc Feher — under the spell of "cultural criticism". Cultural critics as diverse in their philosophical perspectives as our teachers Georg Lukács, Adorno or Heidegger unanimously agreed that contemporary art was decadent, fraudulent, apologetic, over-rationalized or irrational, to sum up, "bad art". Since I have no talent for speaking or writing about what I do not cherish, I did not join the chorus which at the time abused certain tendencies termed — among other things — "postmodern". In accordance with my taste, I simply neglected works created after the times of high modernism, avoiding them in exhibitions, concert halls and the theater.
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Publication details
Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag
Place: Wiesbaden
Year: 2007
Pages: 37-50
ISBN (Hardback): 9783835060715
Full citation:
, "What is "postmodern" — a quarter of a century after?", in: Moderne begreifen, Wiesbaden, Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2007