Modernity without a Project C.B. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, C. B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--21st century.

Art, Modern.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2015

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : "the contemporary"

Modernity without a project

Remaking the Museum of Modern Art

Complacencies of the new architecture

Endgame : consequences of contemporaneity.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196).

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

OCLC:

1181774100