%0 Journal Article
%T David Roberts: Images of aesthetic modernity
%A John Rundell
%J Thesis Eleven
%@ 1461-7455
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0725513619849650
%X David Roberts has always had a keen, sharp and even mischievous eye for paradox, for pointing to what used to be termed in Hegelianese, ¡®contradictions¡¯ or ¡®dialectics¡¯ of modern society and its forms. Roberts¡¯ keen eye has focused on the paradoxes (rather than negative dialectics) of aesthetic modernity and the forms that these paradoxes have taken within the historical time consciousness and self-understanding of modernity. This paper will suggest ¨C although only sketchily and in outline ¨C that Roberts¡¯ keen eye notices and reconstructs three paradoxical models or forms of aesthetic modernity: 1. The total work of art of aesthetic modernism; 2. the contemporary postmodern plurality of the present which is captured as musealization; 3. interpretation, play and humour as the open acceptance of the contingency and paradoxes of the present
%K aesthetic modernity
%K modernism
%K museum
%K postmodernism
%K David Roberts
%K total work of art
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0725513619849650