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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

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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)

Probation training is now characterised by its integration of a skills-based National Vocational Qualification, with the broader demands of intensive degree-level study. Helen Schofield argues that whatever its shortcomings, the new training has a highly contemporary formation, which will make it capable of meeting the needs of probation staff, employers and the community in the 21st Century.

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.