Making it modern: the history of modernism in architecture and design - Couverture rigide

Aaron, Betsky

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1940291151 ISBN 13 : 9781940291154

Editeur : Actar Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has already appeared an attempt to fix life as it is being lived. Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously. Modernism is a monument to or memory of that act, which in its own making tries to remake the world it is pretending to represent.

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À propos de l'auteur

Aaron Betsky (born 1958) is a critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who since August 2006 has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Betsky was named as the director of the 11th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Actar Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1940291151
• ISBN 13: 9781940291154
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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