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Explored are the sources of modernism & postmodernism in the visual arts, focusing on modernism as an expression of the twentieth-century exotic, & arguing that early modernist painting & sculpture, such as that by Paul Gauguin, is predicated almost entirely on the exotic -- eg, on non-European sources. The work of Pablo Picasso & Marcel Duchamp is discussed, showing that the surrealists continued the primitivization of modernist art. It is further contended that modernism in the visual arts constituted a mainstream style that ran its course from roughly 1910-1970 & is best described in formalist terms. The origins of postmodernist visual art in critical modernism are discussed, & it is concluded that more can be learned about the origins of postmodernist art by studying the critiques of formalism. W. Howard

The canonization within literary and cultural studies of one highly selective version of 'modernism' has long delayed the kind of formal differentiation and historical perspective vital to a full understanding of aesthetic modernity. Traces the source of this blockage to the specific yet dynamic relations of production of modernist cultural practice. (Abstract amended)

Modernity, modernism, and modernization in Zionism -- Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, and the nationalization of Jewish myth -- Zionism and the modernization of messianism -- "Canaanism" between Zionism and post-Zionism

ARGUABLY, CANADA WAS AMONG THE FIRST MODERN NATIONS. UNTIL RECENTLY, HISTORIANS OF CANADA HAVE PAID LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE IMPACT OF MODERNITY ON THE EMERGING NATION. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE CITIES AND THEIR PROBLEMS, NEW STAPLES, MASS SOCIETY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND PROGRESSIVE FORCES. IT PONDERS WHETHER A COUNTRY COMMITTED TO MODERNITY AT THE END OF THE MODERN PERIOD CAN ABANDON ITS INHERITANCE AND MAKE THE TRANSITION TO A POST-MODERN FUTURE.

Introduction: Wittgenstein, modernism, and the contradictions of writing philosophy as poetry / Michael LeMahieu and Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé -- Wittgenstein's modernist context -- Wittgenstein and modernism in literature: between the Tractatus and the Philosophical investigations / Anthony J. Cascardi -- "To become a different person": Wittgenstein, Christianity, and the modernist ethos / Marjorie Perloff -- The concept of expression in the arts from a Wittgensteinian perspective / Charles Altieri -- Wittgenstein, Loos, and critical modernism: style and idea in architecture and philosophy / Allan Janik -- Wittgenstein's modernist cultures -- Loos, Musil, Wittgenstein, and the recovery of human life / Piergiorgio Donatelli -- Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and pure realism / Eli Friedlander -- What makes a poem philosophical? / John Gibson -- Wittgenstein and literary modernism -- In the condition of modernism: philosophy, literature, and the sacred fount / Kristin Boyce -- The world as Bloom found it: "Ithaca," the Tractatus, and "looking more than once for the solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life" / Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé -- Lectures on ethics: Wittgenstein and Kafka / Yi-ping Ong -- Bellow's private language / Michael LeMahieu

"This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a "modern" notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida's affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy"--