What are some characteristics of modern art?

1.) the alignment with Freud's discoveries of the primacy of the unconscious 2.) a radical questioning of the process of representation 3.) the problematic status of the author and his authority-the author appears in the text 4.) the artist as dandy or anti-commercial radical 5.) the "new metropolitan cities", "transnational capitals", the "City of Strangers" 6.) art made by the restlessly mobile emigré or exile 7.) the non-natural status of language