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critique which sees modernism as an expression of an outmoded humanist viewpoint. But those arguments which pit a 'postmodernist' art against a 'modernist' art are the victims of a semantic illusion. As they are used in criticism, these terms do not always refer to like phenomena. 'Modernism' can refer to objects having a specific style or, in a quite different use, to a specific art historical trend. In the latter instance, it is given that the term is being used selectively since everything current is modern. Modern art, then, is that art which has been designated as being characteristic soldes nike air max not only of art as it is now, but art as it reflects the present culture. Needless to say, such a process, one which selects from complex, disparate and contradictory phenomena a single linear development, is not disinterested, but the expression of an ideology. Postmodernism can be seen to be at odds with this ideology. When 'modernism' is used to designate not just a style but a trend, it becomes a loaded historicist concept. The idea that painting from David, through Manet, C and cubism to abstract expressionism has enacted some history of its own, naturally resolving painting's inner necessity to be true to itself, is, before it is a neutral description of the history of painting, two other things. It is idealistic. We are required to believe that there is an entity called painting which must resolve contradictions internal to it according to certain formal laws. These are apparently as unyielding as those of natural science. Secondly, it is historicist. It most easily describes progress, so that one thinks of Picasso as completing a task begun by C or one thinks that figurative painting after the event of cubism is regressive. So understood, the history of modern painting is the reversal of