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  • adjective art In a time when choice of medium no longer matters.

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post- +‎ medium

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  • Socially engaged themes like 9 / 11, globalisation and the turn to religion of our contemporary society are juxta­posed with subjects that are more directly related to art, such as the return of Romanticism, the primacy of design and the status of the artwork in what is referred to as 'the postmedium condition'. "

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