Postmodernism : style and subversion, 1970-1990 / edited by Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt ; [[essays by] Paola Antonelli ... [et al.]].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : V&A Pub. ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2011, c2011.Description: 319 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 1851776591 : HRD
  • 9781851776597
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 700.4113 22
LOC classification:
  • NX456.5.P66 P673 2011
Contents:
Summary: The radical ideas associated with postmodernism swept through the arts in the 1970s, but have always been hard to summarise. This book presents the movement as not merely an aesthetic vocabulary, but also as a subversive attitude - a new way of looking at the world.
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"Published to accompany the exhibition ... at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 24 September 2011 - 15 January 2012"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-303) and index.

Postmodernism : style and subversion / Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt -- Arch-art : architecture as subject matter / James Wines -- Our postmodernism / Denise Scott Brown -- On bricolage / Victor Buchli -- Kitsch and postmodern architecture : Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia / Patricia A. Morton -- Irony and postmodern architecture / Emmanuel Petit -- Civitas Interruptus / Thomas Wea

The radical ideas associated with postmodernism swept through the arts in the 1970s, but have always been hard to summarise. This book presents the movement as not merely an aesthetic vocabulary, but also as a subversive attitude - a new way of looking at the world.

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