This book introduces the ideas of Modernism and their post‎-modern evolution in a clear and engaging argument that links the development of visual culture to the social and political conditions in which it is produced‎.‎ It established the key critical terms of reference before taking the reader through the evolution of this century‎'‎s visual culture in a wide‎-ranging and approachable way‎.‎ It was the cultural processes of the Enlightenment and the subsequent development of industrial cultures that informed the early ideas of Modernism and gave us our world of rapid communication‎,‎ fast cars and cities filled with skyscrapers and consumer goods‎.‎ It also gave us a world in which environmental disaster looms and there the cultural legacy of European colonialisation has still to be unravelled‎.‎ The post‎-industrial‎,‎ post‎-modern world of the internet and virtual reality is challenging the mono‎-culture of Modernism‎,‎ and celebrates cultural diversity and multiplicity‎.‎ But our new age has cultural problems that also n‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎