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Return of the real
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The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two.
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The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two.
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Return of the real
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The Return of the Real presents an original reading of art and theory over the last three decades, with special attention to the controversial connections between the two.
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October 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
October 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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The architect reconstructing her practice
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.
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April 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
April 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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November 1994, Montréal
November 1994, Montréal
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Chora 1: intervals in the philosophy of architecture
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.
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November 1994, Montréal
November 1994, Montréal
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that(...)
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that(...)
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White walls, designer dresses : the fashioning of modern architecture
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing -- the newly athletic body of the building, like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment and these garments are meant to match. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. Wigley follows the trajectory of this key subtext by closely reading the statements and designs of most of the protagonists, demonstrating that it renders modern architecture's relationship with the psychosexual economy of fashion much more ambiguous than the architects' endlessly repeated rejections of fashion would suggest. Indeed, Wigley asserts, the very intensity of these rejections is a symptom of how deeply they are embedded in the world of clothing. By drawing on arguments about the relationship between clothing and architecture first formulated in the middle of the nineteenth century, modern architects in fact presented a sophisticated theory of the surface, modernizing architecture by transforming the status of the surface. "White Walls, Designer Dresses" shows how this seemingly incidental clothing logic actually organizes the detailed design of the modern building, dictating a system of polychromy, understood as a multicolored outfit. The familiar image of modern architecture as white turns out to be the effect of a historiographical tradition that has worked hard to suppress the color of the surfaces of the buildings that it describes. Wigley analyzes this suppression in terms of the sexual logic that invariably accompanies discussions of clothing and color, recovering those sensuously colored surfaces and the extraordinary arguments about clothing that were used to defend them.
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing -- the newly athletic body of the building, like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment and these garments are meant to match. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. Wigley follows the trajectory of this key subtext by closely reading the statements and designs of most of the protagonists, demonstrating that it renders modern architecture's relationship with the psychosexual economy of fashion much more ambiguous than the architects' endlessly repeated rejections of fashion would suggest. Indeed, Wigley asserts, the very intensity of these rejections is a symptom of how deeply they are embedded in the world of clothing. By drawing on arguments about the relationship between clothing and architecture first formulated in the middle of the nineteenth century, modern architects in fact presented a sophisticated theory of the surface, modernizing architecture by transforming the status of the surface. "White Walls, Designer Dresses" shows how this seemingly incidental clothing logic actually organizes the detailed design of the modern building, dictating a system of polychromy, understood as a multicolored outfit. The familiar image of modern architecture as white turns out to be the effect of a historiographical tradition that has worked hard to suppress the color of the surfaces of the buildings that it describes. Wigley analyzes this suppression in terms of the sexual logic that invariably accompanies discussions of clothing and color, recovering those sensuously colored surfaces and the extraordinary arguments about clothing that were used to defend them.
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December 1995, Cambridge, Mass.
December 1995, Cambridge, Mass.
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Socrates' ancestor
Socrates' ancestor
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility(...)
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility(...)
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October 1993, Cambridge London
October 1993, Cambridge London
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Socrates' ancestor
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility of craft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance of the encompassing colonnade - the ptera or "wings" - that made Greek temples Greek. Who was Socrates' ancestor? Socrates claims it was Daedalus, the mythical first architect. Socrates' ancestors were also the first Western philosophers: the pre-Socratic thinkers of archaic Greece where the Greek city-state with its monumental temples first came to light. McEwen brilliantly draws out the connections between Daedalus and the earliest Greek thinkers, between architecture and the advent of speculative thought. She argues that Greek thought and Greek architecture share a common ground in the amazing fabrications of the legendary Daedalus: statues so animated with divine life that they had to be bound in chains, the Labyrinth where Theseus slew the Minotaur, Ariadne's dancing floor in Knossos. Socrates' Ancestor is an exploration as remarkable for its clarity as for its avoidance of reductionism. Drawing as much on the power of myth and metaphor as on philosophical, philological, and historical considerations, McEwen first reaches backward: from Socrates to the earliest written record of Western philosophy in the Anaximander B1 fragment, and its physical expression in Anaximander's built work - a "cosmic model" that consisted of a celestial sphere, a map of the world, and the first Greek sun clock. From daedalean artifacts she draws out the centrality of early Greek craftsmanship and its role in the making of the Greek city-state. The investigation then moves forward to a discussion of the polis and the first great peripteral temples that anchored for the meaning of "city."
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Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility of craft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance of the encompassing colonnade - the ptera or "wings" - that made Greek temples Greek. Who was Socrates' ancestor? Socrates claims it was Daedalus, the mythical first architect. Socrates' ancestors were also the first Western philosophers: the pre-Socratic thinkers of archaic Greece where the Greek city-state with its monumental temples first came to light. McEwen brilliantly draws out the connections between Daedalus and the earliest Greek thinkers, between architecture and the advent of speculative thought. She argues that Greek thought and Greek architecture share a common ground in the amazing fabrications of the legendary Daedalus: statues so animated with divine life that they had to be bound in chains, the Labyrinth where Theseus slew the Minotaur, Ariadne's dancing floor in Knossos. Socrates' Ancestor is an exploration as remarkable for its clarity as for its avoidance of reductionism. Drawing as much on the power of myth and metaphor as on philosophical, philological, and historical considerations, McEwen first reaches backward: from Socrates to the earliest written record of Western philosophy in the Anaximander B1 fragment, and its physical expression in Anaximander's built work - a "cosmic model" that consisted of a celestial sphere, a map of the world, and the first Greek sun clock. From daedalean artifacts she draws out the centrality of early Greek craftsmanship and its role in the making of the Greek city-state. The investigation then moves forward to a discussion of the polis and the first great peripteral temples that anchored for the meaning of "city."
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October 1993, Cambridge London
October 1993, Cambridge London
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Le sens du lieu
Le sens du lieu
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Cet ouvrage est issu des Actes du colloque "Le sens du lieu : topos, logos, aisthèsis" organisé par l'École d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand et le Collège International de Philosophie. Il contient des textes d'une vingtaine d'auteurs dont Jean-Louis Déotte, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Alain Petit, Alain Roger et Chris Younès.
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Cet ouvrage est issu des Actes du colloque "Le sens du lieu : topos, logos, aisthèsis" organisé par l'École d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand et le Collège International de Philosophie. Il contient des textes d'une vingtaine d'auteurs dont Jean-Louis Déotte, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Alain Petit, Alain Roger et Chris Younès.
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November 1996, Bruxelles
November 1996, Bruxelles
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Le sens du lieu
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Cet ouvrage est issu des Actes du colloque "Le sens du lieu : topos, logos, aisthèsis" organisé par l'École d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand et le Collège International de Philosophie. Il contient des textes d'une vingtaine d'auteurs dont Jean-Louis Déotte, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Alain Petit, Alain Roger et Chris Younès.
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Cet ouvrage est issu des Actes du colloque "Le sens du lieu : topos, logos, aisthèsis" organisé par l'École d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand et le Collège International de Philosophie. Il contient des textes d'une vingtaine d'auteurs dont Jean-Louis Déotte, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Alain Petit, Alain Roger et Chris Younès.
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November 1996, Bruxelles
November 1996, Bruxelles
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James(...)
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James(...)
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Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books. Reprinted in 2003.
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books. Reprinted in 2003.
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September 1997, London
September 1997, London
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Comprendre l'éclectisme
Comprendre l'éclectisme
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Essai engagé de l'auteur, où il propose de considérer l'éclectisme en architecture dans le cadre des débats politiques qui traversent le XIXe siècle et se prolongent jusqu'au début du XXe.
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Comprendre l'éclectisme
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Essai engagé de l'auteur, où il propose de considérer l'éclectisme en architecture dans le cadre des débats politiques qui traversent le XIXe siècle et se prolongent jusqu'au début du XXe.
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Essai engagé de l'auteur, où il propose de considérer l'éclectisme en architecture dans le cadre des débats politiques qui traversent le XIXe siècle et se prolongent jusqu'au début du XXe.
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January 1900, Paris
January 1900, Paris
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Bruno Zevi, Massimiliano Fuksas, Herzog & De Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Jan Kaplicky, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Lucien Kroll, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, Gustav Peichl, Dominique Perrault, Alvaro Siza et Otto Steidle.
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Bruno Zevi, Massimiliano Fuksas, Herzog & De Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Jan Kaplicky, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Lucien Kroll, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, Gustav Peichl, Dominique Perrault, Alvaro Siza et Otto Steidle.
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L'architecture en questions : 15 entretiens avec des architectes
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Bruno Zevi, Massimiliano Fuksas, Herzog & De Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Jan Kaplicky, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Lucien Kroll, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, Gustav Peichl, Dominique Perrault, Alvaro Siza et Otto Steidle.
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Bruno Zevi, Massimiliano Fuksas, Herzog & De Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Jan Kaplicky, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Lucien Kroll, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, Gustav Peichl, Dominique Perrault, Alvaro Siza et Otto Steidle.
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January 1900, Paris
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing(...)
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing(...)
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. The postmodern world, Taylor argues, is a world of surfaces, and the postmodern condition is one of profound superficiality. For many cultural commentators, postmodernism's inescapable play of surfaces is cause for despair. Taylor, on the other hand, shows that the disappearance of depth in postmodern culture is actually a liberation repleat with creative possibilities. Taylor introduces readers to a popular culture in which detectives--the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter--lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. Taylor looks at the contemporary preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing, and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. Phrenology and skin diseases, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas, the limitless spread of computer networks--all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation. Embodying the very tendencies it analyzes, Hiding is unique. Conceived and developed with well-known designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellars, this work transgresses the boundary that customarily separates graphic design from the story within a text. The product of nearly three decades of reflection and writing, Hiding opens a window on contemporary culture. To follow the remarkable course Taylor charts is to see both our present and past differently and to encounter a future as disorienting as it is alluring. Conceived and developed with designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellers.
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. The postmodern world, Taylor argues, is a world of surfaces, and the postmodern condition is one of profound superficiality. For many cultural commentators, postmodernism's inescapable play of surfaces is cause for despair. Taylor, on the other hand, shows that the disappearance of depth in postmodern culture is actually a liberation repleat with creative possibilities. Taylor introduces readers to a popular culture in which detectives--the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter--lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. Taylor looks at the contemporary preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing, and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. Phrenology and skin diseases, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas, the limitless spread of computer networks--all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation. Embodying the very tendencies it analyzes, Hiding is unique. Conceived and developed with well-known designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellars, this work transgresses the boundary that customarily separates graphic design from the story within a text. The product of nearly three decades of reflection and writing, Hiding opens a window on contemporary culture. To follow the remarkable course Taylor charts is to see both our present and past differently and to encounter a future as disorienting as it is alluring. Conceived and developed with designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellers.
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October 1997, Chicago
October 1997, Chicago
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