1980 Venice Architecture Biennale Exhibiting the Postmodern
Author: Lea Catherine Szacka
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781472458162
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Exhibiting Slavery
Author: Vivian Nun Halloran
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009-09-22
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0813928656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of "primary documents" within their pages. As Vivian Nun Halloran attests, these novels highlight narrative "objects" extraneous to their plot--such as excerpts from the work of earlier writers, allusions to specific works of art, the uniforms of maroon armies assembled in preparation of a military offensive, and accounts of slavery's negative impact on the traditional family unit in Africa or the United States. In doing so, they demand that their readers go beyond the pages of the books to sort out fact from fiction and consider what relationship these featured "objects" have to slavery and to contemporary life. The self-referential function of these texts produces a "museum effect" that simultaneously teaches and entertains their readers, prompting them to continue their own research beyond and outside the text.
Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects
Author: Sylvia Lavin
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781927071601
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Author: Léa-Catherine Szacka
Publisher: Marsilio
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788831726726
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Exhibiting the postmodern traces the origins and significance of the First International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Situating the 1980 exhibition The presence of the past against the larger historical backdrop in which architecture exhibitions appear, and considering their proliferation in the postmodern era, this book claims that the exhibition, beyond heralding a shift in the history of curating, marked both the beginning of the end, and the end of the beginning of the postmodern turn in architecture. Looking at the institutional changes, exhibitions techniques and exhibitions spaces, as well as the discourse and controversies between advocates of the modern and postmodern architecture, this book narrates the development of the architectural exhibitions as a 'genre' of culture manifestations, while expanding on both the history of the Venice Architecture Biennale- and, more general, the Italian architecture in the 1970's- and the history of postmodernism. It also reveals how the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale announced a changing relationship between the worlds of art and architecture, and the consequent transformation of the architectural product as end object"--Page 2 of cover.
Biennials/Triennials
Author: Lea-Catherine Szacka
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781941332559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions has resulted in the biennial / triennial becoming an integral part of field of architecture. Biennials / Triennials questions a range of curatorial agents and visits sites of recent exhibitions that reveal what is at stake in the newfound ubiquity of the architectural -ennial.
On the Museum's Ruins
Author: Douglas Crimp
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780262531269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What determines the significance of a work of art? Doe it abide eternally within the work? Or is it continually constructed and reconstructed from the outside, through the work's presentation? The historical shift from autonomous modernist object to postmodernist critique of institutions, from artwork to discursive context, is the subject of Douglas Crimp's essays and Louise Lawler's photographs in On the Museum's Ruins. Taking the museum as paradigmatic institution of artistic modernism, Crimp surveys its historical origins and current transformations. The new paradigm of postmodernism is elaborated through analyses of art practices broadly conceived--not only the practices of artists but also those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums."--back cover.
Second World Postmodernisms
Author: Vladimir Kulic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1350014427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf postmodernism is indeed 'the cultural logic of late capitalism', why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identity find their application in the architecture of the socialist Second World? How do we explain the retreat into paper architecture and theoretical discussion in societies still nominally devoted to socialist modernization? Exploring the intersection of two areas of growing scholarly interest - postmodernism and the architecture of the former socialist world - this edited collection stakes out new ground in charting architecture's various transformations in the 1970s and 80s. Fourteen essays together explore the question of whether or not architectural postmodernism had a specific Second World variant. The collection demonstrates both the unique nature of Second World architectural phenomena and also assesses connections with western postmodernism. The case studies cover the vast geographical scope from Eastern Europe to China and Cuba. They address a wealth of aesthetic, discursive and practical phenomena, interpreting them in the broader socio-political context of the last decades of the Cold War. The result provides a greatly expanded map of recent architectural history, which redefines postmodernist architecture in a more theoretically comprehensive and global way.
Postmodern Architecture
Author: Owen Hopkins
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2020-02-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714878126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity This unprecedented book takes its subtitle from Postmodernist icon Robert Venturi's spirited response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that 'less is more'. One of the 20th century's most controversial styles, Postmodernism began in the 1970s, reached a fever pitch of eclectic non-conformity in the 1980s and 90s, and after nearly 40 years is now enjoying a newfound popularity. Postmodern Architecture showcases examples of the movement in a rainbow of hues and forms from around the globe.
Postmodernism
Author: Glenn Adamson
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781851776597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the movement as not merely an aesthetic vocabulary, but also as a subversive attitude - a new way of looking at the world.
The History of Postmodern Architecture
Author: Heinrich Klotz
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKprovides a fascinating, clear, and provocative definition of the phenomena of postmodernism, particularly in relation to the major ideas of modernism
