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In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction-and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture has come under increasing criticism. In this collection of essays, experienced and emerging scholars take a fresh look at postwar modern architecture...
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"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world.'" Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of knowledge and science have banished mysteries, leaving a world that can be mastered technically and intellectually. And though this idea seems empowering, many people have become disenchanted with modern...
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Jewish art and visual culture-art made by Jews about Jews-in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait...
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Mark Rothko's iconic paintings are some of the most profound works of twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism. This collection presents fifty large-scale artworks from the American master's color field period (1949—1970) alongside essays by Rothko's son, Christopher Rothko, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator of painting and sculpture, Janet Bishop.
Featuring illuminating details about Rothko's life, influences, and legacy, and brimming...
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La historia del siglo xx muestra que hasta prácticamente los años sesenta, cuando emerge la contestación gay, lésbica y trans en las calles, la representación de la diversidad sexual se mueve en líneas generales en el ámbito privado, en la ocultación, en la vergüenza. No obstante, diversas manifestaciones artísticas lograron abrirse paso, en determinados círculos y sin llegar al gran público, para que los artistas pudiesen expresar su...
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David Joselit is professor and chair of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of After Art (Princeton); Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization, winner of the 2021 Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation; and other books.
A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize power
In this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the...
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The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there.
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert...
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Shanghai's Xintiandi is China's first world-class landmark urban entertainment and cultural destination and East Meets West tells the story of how it came into being, showing how urban renewal is not only about constructing architectural spaces but also about deciphering the history and evolution of local culture. Author Zhou Yongping was one of the team that made Xintiandi possible, successfully balancing the requirements of the city government,...
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Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between the late 1980s and 2000s, transformed their dwellings as their countries transformed around them. Soviet infrastructure remained but, in their...
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Larissa Buchholz is an award-winning sociologist whose work centers on the dynamics of artistic production and art markets within a global context. She is also interested in broader questions of global theorizing, particularly regarding advancements in transnational/global field theory. In addition to a PhD in sociology from Columbia University, Buchholz's education encompasses art history, philosophy, media studies, and anthropology. She is assistant...
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Robert Slifkin is associate professor of fine arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He is the author of Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. He lives in New York City.
How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculpture
In the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to...
13) John Piper
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Published to accompany the John Piper exhibition at the Tate Liverpool and written by its curator, this book presents a comprehensive examination of the English artist's role as champion of modernism in Britain. John Piper (1903–1992) is renowned for his extraordinarily diverse practice that embraced landscape, architectural and abstract compositions, as well as his theatre and stage sets for Benjamin Britten and his stained-glass windows. The exhibition...
14) Andy Warhol
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Art critic, philosopher, and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context...
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Sharing stories and inspiring lessons on leadership and design, one architect explains how he helped build one of the world's most successful firms.
Founded on July 4, 1976, Kohn Pedersen Fox quickly became a darling of the press with groundbreaking buildings such as the headquarters for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in New York, 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago, the Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, and the World Bank Headquarters...
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Thomas Crow is the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His many books include The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930–1995 and The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957–1969.
How California's counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped-and was shaped by-West Coast artists
The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact...
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This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative, to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture.
At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how, an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with...
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Essays on architecture in Kuwait, Iran, Israel, and other nations in the region, and how it can and must address the needs of local residents.
As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing-both gleaming...
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