Rethinking Global Modernism

Author : Vikramaditya Prakash,Maristella Casciato,Daniel E. Coslett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000471632

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Rethinking Global Modernism by Vikramaditya Prakash,Maristella Casciato,Daniel E. Coslett Pdf

This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize those canons, the volume explores what a genuinely "global" history of architectural modernism might begin to look like. Its chapters explore the historiography and weaknesses of modernism's normative interpretations and propose alternatives to them. The collection offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are engaged. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference for a new understanding of this crucial and developing topic.

Author : Katia Pizzi,Roberta Gefter Wondrich
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031355458

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Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms by Katia Pizzi,Roberta Gefter Wondrich Pdf

This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to research on the ‘transnational turn’ in New Modernist Studies, the volume takes recent scholarship on postcolonial modernisms one step further by exploring a broader geopolitical expanse than the (formerly) colonised regions under global capitalism. It highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements from regions such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean to offer new insights into the concept of global modernism.

Author : Roy Starrs
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004211308

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Rethinking Japanese Modernism by Roy Starrs Pdf

By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity.

Author : Almantas Samalavičius
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443878692

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Rethinking Modernism and the Built Environment by Almantas Samalavičius Pdf

This volume is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting contemporary architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making. Presented in the form of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, and internationally renowned architectural historians and urban thinkers, this concise book reviews and critiques the legacy of Modernism and its impact on global urbanisation. Timely, thoughtful and thought-provoking, these conversations, conducted by the editor during the last few years, urge the rejection of some of the most widespread dogmas and often dangerously limiting and misguided intellectual legacies of urban and architectural thinking. The contributors recommend a search instead for more enlightened architectural practices, urban planning, and city-making in the new millennium, when environmental problems have become particularly pressing. In this volume, readers will find not only glimpses into possible urban futures, but a thorough review of what now often appear as the shackles of the not-so-distant Modernist past.

Author : Eric Hayot,Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231543064

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A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism by Eric Hayot,Rebecca L. Walkowitz Pdf

Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters have expanded in recent decades, but the incorporation of multiple origins and influences has often been tied to older conceptual frameworks that make it difficult to think of modernism globally. Providing alternative approaches, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism introduces pathways through global archives and new frameworks that offer a richer, more representative set of concepts for the analysis of literary and cultural works. In separate essays each inspired by a critical term, this collection explores what happens to the foundational concepts of modernism and the methods we bring to modernist studies when we approach the field as a global phenomenon. Their work transforms the intellectual paradigms we have long associated with modernism, such as tradition, antiquity, style, and translation. New paradigms, such as context, slum, copy, pantomime, and puppets emerge as the archive extends beyond its European center. In bringing together and reexamining the familiar as well as the emergent, the contributors to this volume offer an invaluable and original approach to studying the intersection of world literature and modernist studies.

Author : James Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004563475

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The Complete Architecture of Balkrishna Doshi by James Steele Pdf

Author : Vikramaditya Prakash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000937817

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Le Corbusier's Chandigarh Revisited by Vikramaditya Prakash Pdf

- Author is known as an international authority on the subject. - Based on original archival research, the book provides a fresh perspective by situating the city in both historical and cultural context. - Will appeal to a range of disciplines, from urban planning to architecture and landscape architecture, to cultural and postcolonial studies.

Author : Mark Jarzombek,Vikramaditya Prakash
Publisher : Actar
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1638400520

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A House Deconstructed by Mark Jarzombek,Vikramaditya Prakash Pdf

This book 'deconstructs' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors - atoms, labors, sources and ingredients. Though remarkably detailed, the A House Deconstructed contends that a huge proportion of what we 'know' about the house is unknowable, not because our epistemological instruments aren't strong enough or calibrated precisely enough, but because things themselves are indeterminate, uncertain. This begs the question about agency. If we are to critique our profession and even improve some of its claims about Sustainability, then we must develop a more robust understanding of the building industry and the sourcing and making of materials. We must even develop a stronger awareness of the history of atoms and how architecture brings that history into a remarkable focus.

Author : Alberto Martinelli
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847871459

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Global Modernization by Alberto Martinelli Pdf

The last decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the problems of modernity and modernization. In particular, three major processes have emerged as objects of debate: " The transformations of capitalism manifested in globalization and the unfolding of post-industrial society " The rapid and strong economic development of countries outside the West " The political and economic transformations in the post-Soviet countries of Eastern Europe

Author : Katia Pizzi,Roberta Gefter Wondrich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031355462

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Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms by Katia Pizzi,Roberta Gefter Wondrich Pdf

This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to research on the ‘transnational turn’ in New Modernist Studies, the volume takes recent scholarship on postcolonial modernisms one step further by exploring a broader geopolitical expanse than the (formerly) colonised regions under global capitalism. It highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements from regions such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean to offer new insights into the concept of global modernism.

Author : Brian Wallis
Publisher : New York : New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Boston : D.R. Godine
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076000844683

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Art After Modernism by Brian Wallis Pdf

"The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an astonishing array of artistic and critical responses. The twenty-five essays in Art After Modernism provide a comprehensive survey of the most provocative directions taken by recent art and criticism, exploring such topics as the decline of the ideology of modernism in the arts and the emergence of a wide range of postmodern practices; recent directions in painting, film, video, and imagery; and the dynamics of the social network in which art is produced and disseminated. This major collection is an indispensable guide to the ideas and issues animating this decade's art--the far-reaching cultural reorientation known as postmodernism"--Back cover

Author : Saikat Majumdar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231527675

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Prose of the World by Saikat Majumdar Pdf

Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective experience of colonial modernity significantly shapes the innovative aesthetics of modernist fiction. Prose of the World explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Ranging from James Joyce's deflated epiphanies to Amit Chaudhuri's disavowal of the grand spectacle of postcolonial national allegories, Majumdar foregrounds the banal as a key instinct of modern and contemporary fiction—one that nevertheless remains submerged because of its antithetical relation to literature's intuitive function to engage or excite. Majumdar asks us to rethink the assumption that banality merely indicates an aesthetic failure. If narrative is traditionally enabled by the tremor, velocity, and excitement of the event, the historical and affective lack implied by the banal produces a narrative force that is radically new precisely because it suspends the conventional impulses of narration.

Author : Mark Wollaeger,Matt Eatough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199324705

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms by Mark Wollaeger,Matt Eatough Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus on English and Irish literature to explore the contributions of artists from countries and regions like the US, Cuba, Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria.

Author : Elizabeth Harney,Ruth B. Phillips
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822372615

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Mapping Modernisms by Elizabeth Harney,Ruth B. Phillips Pdf

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. Mapping Modernisms is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world. Contributors. Bill Anthes, Peter Brunt, Karen Duffek, Erin Haney, Elizabeth Harney, Heather Igloliorte, Sandra Klopper, Ian McLean, Anitra Nettleton, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ruth B. Phillips, W. Jackson Rushing III, Damian Skinner, Nicholas Thomas, Norman Vorano

Author : Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231539470

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Planetary Modernisms by Susan Stanford Friedman Pdf

Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study. Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the interconnected modernisms of the long twentieth century, pairing Joseph Conrad with Tayeb Salih, E. M. Forster with Arundhati Roy, Virginia Woolf with the Tagores, and Aimé Césaire with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She reads postcolonial works from Sudan and India and engages with the idea of Négritude. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence, elevating the agencies and creative capacities of all cultures not only in the past and present but also in the century to come.