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Postmodern culture /

Contributor(s): Foster, Hal.
Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 1983, (1993)Description: xvi, 159 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0745300030; 9780745300030:; 9780745300030.Subject(s): Modernism (Aesthetics) | Postmodernism | Civilization, Modern -- 1950-DDC classification: 149.97
Contents:
Postmodernism: a preface / Hal Foster -- Modernity: an incomplete project / Jürgen Habermas -- Towards a critical regionalism: six points for an architecture of resistance / Kenneth Frampton -- Sculpture in the expanded field / Rosalind Krauss -- On the museum's ruins / Douglas Crimp -- The discourse of others: feminists and postmodernism / Craig Owens -- The object of post-criticism / Gregory L. Ulmer -- Postmodernism and consumer society / Fredric Jameson -- The ecstasy of communication / Jean Baudrillard -- Opponents, audiences, constituencies and community / Edward W. Said.
Summary: In all the arts a war is being waged between modernists and postmodernists. This contributors to this text propose a postmodernism of resistance - an aesthetic that rejects hierarchy and celebrates diversity.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 149.97 FOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0076077
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First published as "The Anti-Aesthetic" in the U.S. in 1983.

Includes bibliographical references.

Postmodernism: a preface / Hal Foster -- Modernity: an incomplete project / Jürgen Habermas -- Towards a critical regionalism: six points for an architecture of resistance / Kenneth Frampton -- Sculpture in the expanded field / Rosalind Krauss -- On the museum's ruins / Douglas Crimp -- The discourse of others: feminists and postmodernism / Craig Owens -- The object of post-criticism / Gregory L. Ulmer -- Postmodernism and consumer society / Fredric Jameson -- The ecstasy of communication / Jean Baudrillard -- Opponents, audiences, constituencies and community / Edward W. Said.

In all the arts a war is being waged between modernists and postmodernists. This contributors to this text propose a postmodernism of resistance - an aesthetic that rejects hierarchy and celebrates diversity.

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