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Author : Dick Higgins
Release : 1997
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Modernism Since Postmodernism by : Dick Higgins
Download or read book Modernism Since Postmodernism written by Dick Higgins. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andreas Huyssen
Release : 1986
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis After the Great Divide by : Andreas Huyssen
Download or read book After the Great Divide written by Andreas Huyssen. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo . . . " —Village Voice Literary Supplement " . . . his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." —American Literary History " . . . challenging and astute." —World Literature Today "Huyssen's level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critical voices brings welcome clarification to today's murky haze of cultural discussion and proves definitively that commentary from the tradition of the German Left has an indispensable role to play in contemporary criticism." —The German Quarterly " . . . we will certainly have, after reading this book, a deeper understanding of the forces that have led up to the present and of the possibilities still open to us." —Critical Texts " . . . a rich, multifaceted study." —The Year's Work in English Studies Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity—the historical avant-garde.
Author : Dick Higgins
Release : 1997
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Modernism Since Postmodernism by : Dick Higgins
Download or read book Modernism Since Postmodernism written by Dick Higgins. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Jencks
Release : 1987
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Post-modernism by : Charles Jencks
Download or read book Post-modernism written by Charles Jencks. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the return to a new classical style within art and architecture. Includes 350 illustrations of paintings, sculpture, and architecture.
Author : Pauline Marie Rosenau
Release : 1991-11-05
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences by : Pauline Marie Rosenau
Download or read book Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences written by Pauline Marie Rosenau. This book was released on 1991-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields. For example, in psychology it questions the conscious, logical, coherent subject; in public administration it encourages a retreat from central planning and from reliance on specialists; in political science it calls into question the authority of hierarchical, bureaucratic decision-making structures that function in carefully defined spheres; in anthropology it inspires the protection of local, primitive cultures from First World attempts to reorganize them. In all of the social sciences, she argues, post-modernism repudiates representative democracy and plays havoc with the very meaning of "left-wing" and "right-wing." Rosenau also highlights how post-modernism has inspired a new generation of social movements, ranging from New Age sensitivities to Third World fundamentalism. In weighing its strengths and weaknesses, the author examines two major tendencies within post-modernism, the largely European, skeptical form and the predominantly Anglo-North-American form, which suggests alternative political, social, and cultural projects. She draws examples from anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, planning, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies, and provides a glossary of post-modern terms to assist the uninitiated reader with special meanings not found in standard dictionaries.
