Collection of critical theory essays by Victor Burgin discussing art in the postmodern era. Includes black-and-white illustrations, notes and references, and index. "The 'postmodern' has become a major issue for both the visual arts and cultural theory. However, the art world has mainly tended to understand postmodernism in the purely domestic terms as, literally, any form of art to emerge after the crisis of confidence in modernist aesthetics ... " -- publishers statement.