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What is post-modernism? / Charles Jencks.

By: Jencks, Charles.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Academy Editions, 1996Edition: 4th ed.Description: 80 p. : ill. (col.) ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1854904280.Subject(s): Postmodernism | Architecture, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 724.6
Contents:
Part One: The logic of history -- Part Two: Post-modern culture -- Part Three: Post-modern society -- Part Four: The universe as measure.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 724.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00076195
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 724.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00061061
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 724.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00054823
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: The logic of history -- Part Two: Post-modern culture -- Part Three: Post-modern society -- Part Four: The universe as measure.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Architectural critic and historian Charles Jencks is the author of, among many other titles, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture (Doubleday 50M copies sold to date)., The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, and The Architecture of the Jumping Universe.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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