By Georgina Born
Born depicts an enormous inventive establishment attempting to retain its prestige and legitimacy in an period more and more ruled by means of industry forces, and in a risky political and cultural weather. She illuminates the erosion of the legitimacy of paintings and technological know-how within the face of starting to be advertisement and political pressures. via tracing how IRCAM has attempted to accomodate those pressures whereas holding its autonomy, Born unearths the contradictory results of institutionalizing an avant-garde.
Contrary to people who see postmodernism representing an accord among excessive and pop culture, Born stresses the continuities among modernism and postmodernism and the way postmodernism itself embodies an implicit antagonism towards well known culture.
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