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What is Post-Modernism? Charles Jencks

What is Post-Modernism? By Charles Jencks

What is Post-Modernism? by Charles Jencks


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Summary

Presenting the reader with many examples of art and architecture appropriate to postmodernism, as well as introducing the history which preceded it, this book aims to facilitate a much clearer understanding of the overall concept.

What is Post-Modernism? Summary

What is Post-Modernism? by Charles Jencks

Provides a lucid exposition of Post-Modernism in art and architecture. This book clarifies a tradition that is thriving but still very much misunderstood. The reader is presented with many examples of art and architecture appropriate to Post-Modernism as well as being introduced to the history which preceded it, facilitating a much clearer understanding of the overall concept and initiating a thirst for more.

Table of Contents

THE LOGIC OF HISTORY. Who Are We? Post-Modern Chooses Us. Capsule History. POST-MODERN CULTURE. The Protestant Crusade. The Protestant Inquisition Amplifies the Enemy. Post-Modernism as Double Coding. The Counter-Reformation in Architecture. Post-Modern Art Subverting While Inscribing. The Confusion of Late- with Post-Modernism. POST-MODERN SOCIETY. The Post-Modern Information World and the Rise of the Cognitariat. The Post-National World: Culture Acceleration. The Post-National World: Thinking Wild Thoughts. Post-Socialism and Socitalism. THE UNIVERSE AS MEASURE. A New Metanarrative? Index.

Additional information

GOR001533927
9781854904287
1854904280
What is Post-Modernism? by Charles Jencks
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19960613
81
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