Introducing Postmodernism

Introducing Postmodernism

Author: Richard Appignanesi

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9781840465754

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Postmodernism seemed to promise an end to the grim Cold War era of nuclear confrontation and oppressive ideologies. This expanded edition brilliantly elucidates this hall of mirrors with Richard Appignanesi's witty and easy-to-follow text and the inspired cartoonist Chris Garratt.


NorCalMod

NorCalMod

Author: Pierluigi Serraino

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2006-08-03

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780811843539

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Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. NorCalMod dispels that notion in a copiously illustrated history showcasing extraordinary examples of its proud contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and Crafts buildings already existed?) pulling heavyweights such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Walter Gropius into the fray. Ultimately, that existing "Bay Region Style" would remain the area's architectural hallmark, but not before hundreds of important modernist projects, many still standing yet unjustly neglected today, had been established. The remarkable photos in this book open our eyes to a long-lost chapter in the history of California architecture and make NorCalMod a volume to be enjoyed by those interested in California history and style as well as by architecture students and professionals.


The Miller Garden

The Miller Garden

Author: Gary R. Hilderbrand

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781888931075

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A masterpiece is honored in this volume tracing Dan Kiley's ongoing development of landscape for the famous Miller House in Indiana. Extensive drawings and plans, never published before, are included. 50 color illustrations.


The Icon and the Square

The Icon and the Square

Author: Maria Taroutina

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780271081045

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Charts the rediscovery and rigorous reassessment of the medieval Russo-Byzantine artistic tradition in Russia in the years 1860-1920. Explores the link between Byzantine revivalism and modernist experimentation, which ultimately made a significant and lasting impact on twentieth-century avant-garde movements.


Ornament is Crime

Ornament is Crime

Author: Albert Hill

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2017-06-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714874166

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An unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present day Ornament Is Crime is a celebration and a thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architecture. The book proposes that modernism need no longer be confined by traditional definitions, and can be seen in both the iconic works of the modernist canon by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, as well as in the work of some of the best contemporary architects of the twenty-first century. This book is a visual manifesto and a celebration of the most important architectural movement in modern history.


Our Joyce

Our Joyce

Author: Joseph Kelly

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-06-25

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 0292748981

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James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a field known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores this amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed. Joseph Kelly looks at five defining moments in Joyce's reputation. Before 1914, when Joyce was most in control of his own reputation, he considered himself an Irish writer speaking to the Dublin middle classes. When T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound began promoting Joyce in 1914, however, they initiated a cult of genius that transformed Joyce into a prototype of the "egoist," a writer talking only to other writers. This view served the purposes of Morris Ernst in the 1930s, when he defended Ulysses against obscenity charges by arguing that geniuses were incapable of obscenity and that they wrote only for elite readers. That view of Joyce solidified in Richard Ellmann's award-winning 1950s biography, which portrayed Joyce as a self-centered genius who cared little for his readers and less for the world at war around him. The biography, in turn, led to Joyce's canonization by the academy, where a "Joyce industry" now flourishes within English departments.


Icon of Modernism

Icon of Modernism

Author: Sarah Kate Gillespie

Publisher: University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 9780915977956

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Modern Art And Modernism

Modern Art And Modernism

Author: Francis Frascina

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 0429978537

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Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art, it is also a history of ideas interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have not merely been influential in deciding how modern art is to be seen and understood, they have also influenced the course it has taken. The nature of modern art cannot be understood without some analysis of the concept of Modernism itself.Modern Art and Modernism presents a selection of texts by the major contributors to debate on this subject, from Baudelaire and Zola in the nineteenth century to Greenberg and T. J. Clark in our own times. It offers a balanced section of essays by contributors to the mainstream of Modernist criticism, representative examples of writing on the themes of abstraction and expression in modern art, and a number of important contributions to the discussion of aesthetics and the social role of the artist. Several of these are made available in English translation for the first time, and others are brought together from a wide range of periodicals and specialized collections.This book will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and students of modern art, art history, and aesthetics, as well as for general readers interested in the place of modern art in culture and history.


Modernism

Modernism

Author: Richard Weston

Publisher:

Published: 2001-04-24

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive survey tracing the course of the Modernist movement.


Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture

Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture

Author: Christopher Crouch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1998-11-20

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 134927058X

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This text summarises and contextualises the ideas that formed visual arts practices this century. Art, design and architecture are located in their social and political contexts, and the ideas of modernism are traced from the development of industrialised Europe at the turn of the century to the post-industrial, post-colonial present. The complex relationship between modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts is examined and the book concludes with a review of the global impact of the new technologies on art and design production.