The Off-Modern Paperback / softback
by Svetlana (Harvard University, USA) Boym
Part of the International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century.
Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques Derrida, Boym presents the off-modern as an eccentric, self-questioning, anti-authoritarian perspective with roots in the Russian avant-garde, now developed in surprising ways by contemporary artists, architects, and curators around the world.
She illustrates the off-modern in discussions of (and with) figures as diverse as architect Rem Koolhaas, Albanian artist-turned-mayor Edi Rama, an art collective in Delhi, and the creator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.
Both a manifesto and a memoir, The Off-Modern often returns to themes of travel and immigration, exploring issues of diasporic intimacy and productive estrangement amid nostalgic landscapes of urban ruins.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 42 bw illus; 16 color illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:15/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781501328978
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 42 bw illus; 16 color illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:15/06/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501328978
