At A Juncture In Which Art And Culture Are Saturated With The Forces Of Commodification, This Book Argues That Problems, Forms, And Positions That Defined Modernism Are Crucially Relevant To The Condition Of Contemporary Art And Culture. The Volume Is Attuned To The Central Concerns Of Recent Scholarship On Modernism And Contemporary Culture: The Problems Of Aesthetic Autonomy And The Specific Role Of Art In Preserving A Critical Standpoint For Cultural Production; The Relationship Between Politics And The Category Of The Aesthetic; The Problems Of Temporality And Contemporaneity; Literary Transnationalism; And The Questions Of Medium And Medium Specificity. Ranging Across Art Forms, Mediums, Disciplines, And Geographical Locations, Essays Address The Foundational Questions That Fuse Modernism And The Contemporary Moment: What Is Art?