Author : C. B. Johnson
Release : 2015-01-03
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 264/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernity Without a Project by : C. B. Johnson
Download or read book Modernity Without a Project written by C. B. Johnson. This book was released on 2015-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entering the 21st century, the postmodern succession has given way to a doom-laden, apolitical orthodoxy. This book offers suggestive readings of "the contemporary" in light of high modernity, postwar modernity, and postmodernity, as framed by the influential institutions of modern art and the spectacles of millennial architecture. Modernity without a Project critiques and connects historical avant-garde currents as they are institutionally expressed or captured, and scrutinizes the remake of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Minoru Yamasaki's vanished Utopias, the "anarchitecture" of Lebbeus Woods, recent work of Rem Koolhaas, delirious developments in Dubai, and the unexpected contribution to architectural debate by the late Hugo Chavez."--Publisher's website.