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oapen-20.500.12657-255342022-07-21T07:50:29Z Modernity without a Project Johnson, C.B. modernism cultural studies architecture avant-garde art bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACX History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -::ACXD Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960::ACXD2 Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus 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 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:42:46Z 2020-04-01T10:42:46Z 2015 book 1004561 OCN: 945783106 9780692351260 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25534 eng application/pdf n/a 1004561.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0087.1.00 10.21983/P3.0087.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9780692351260 ScholarLed 212 Brooklyn, NY open access
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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
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