Critical Modernism: Where Is Post-Modernism Going? - Rilegato

Jencks, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0470030100 ISBN 13: 9780470030103

Casa editrice: Academy Editions Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a ‘critical mass,’ a Modernism2, and become a conscious tradition.

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Recensione:

"The post man still delivers" (Building Design, April 2007)
 
"Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we are all modernists now." (www.BDonline.co.uk/podcast, April 07)

"The post man still delivers" (Building Design, April 2007)
 
"Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we're all modernists now." (www.BDonline.co.uk/podcast, April 07)

L'autore:

Charles Jencks is the well-known writer, landscape designer and author of the bestselling The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (re-issued as The New Paradigm in Architecture, 2002). He has also written numerous other books on contemporary arts and building, including The Architecture of the Jumping Universe (second edition, 1997), The Iconic Building (2005) and is the editor with Karl Kropf of Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (second edition, 2006, also Wiley-Academy). His celebrated garden in Scotland is the subject of his book The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (2003) and in 2004 the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, won the Gulbenkian Prize for Museums for his design, Landform Ueda.

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• Editore: Academy Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470030100
• ISBN 13: 9780470030103
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 240