For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «
high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and
high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «
Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge
within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»