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The last chapter examined the cultural superstructure’s response to the changing material circumstances of the contemporary culture that it helps to create and needs to interpret. In this brief coda to the book I wish to look at the circumstances that are current in the economic base and which look set to influence art and design practice as we go into the twenty-first century.

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Crouch, C. (1999). Coda. In: Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27058-3_10

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