Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political LifeModernism's Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning in particular the political meaning of modernism's commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, and film, it argues that modernism's core aesthetic problem the artwork's status as an object, and a subject's relation to it poses fundamental questions of agency, freedom, and politics. With