Resonating at the heart of Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present c. 1930 is the question whether art has present past and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous arts social and religious functions. But what if the functionlessness of art comes under suspicion of being instrumentalized by bourgeois capitalism This was an accusation that informed the antimodernist critique of the avantgarde and particularly of Surrealism. The obj