Highly-revered art historian, James Elkins, argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives, with each narrative leading to a different understanding of what art is and does.
Examining the rival theories of modernism and postmodernism, and including a survey of ideas about the relation of modern art to skill and politics, this is the first book to gather the principal authors and theories of twentieth-century art history
