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Jeffrey Lieber Flintstone Modernism (Hardback) MIT Press
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- Book Title
- Flintstone Modernism : or the Crisis in Postwar American Culture
- Publication Name
- Flintstone Modernism
- Title
- Flintstone Modernism
- Subtitle
- or The Crisis in Postwar American Culture
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0262037491
- EAN
- 9780262037495
- ISBN
- 9780262037495
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Art, Architecture
- Topic
- History / Contemporary (1945-), Art & Politics, General, Regional, History / General
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 09/02/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Series
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Item Weight
- 28.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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Ancient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: transformations in American culture and architecture. In Flintstone Modernism , Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s--including forgotten gems such as Land of the Pharaohs , Helen of Troy , and The Egyptian --and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects Cinemascope and other widescreen technologies to the architectural "glass curtain wall," arguing that both represented the all-encompassing eye of American Enterprise. Lieber reminds us that until recently midcentury modern American architecture was reviled by architectural historians but celebrated by design enthusiasts, just as sword-and-sandal epics are alternately hailed as cult classics or derided as camp. Lieber's argument is absorbing, exuberant, and comprehensive. Following Hannah Arendt, who looked for analogies in the classical past in order to understand midcentury's cultural crisis, Lieber terms the postwar reckoning of ancient civilizations and modern ideals "Flintstone modernism." In new assessments of the major architects of the period, Lieber uncovers the cultural and political fantasies that animated or impinged on their work, offering surprising insights into Gordon Bunshaft's commonsense classicism; Eero Saarinen's architectural narratives of ersatz empire and Marcel Breuer's mania for Egyptian monoliths; and Edward Durell Stone's romantic "flights of fancy" and Philip Johnson's wicked brand of cynical cultural and sociopolitical critique. Deftly moving among architecture, film, philosophy, and politics, Lieber illuminates the artifice that resulted from the conjunction of high style and mass-cultural values in postwar America.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262037491
ISBN-13
9780262037495
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239622407
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Book Title
Flintstone Modernism : or the Crisis in Postwar American Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), Art & Politics, General, Regional, History / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Art, Architecture
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Na2543.S6l54 2018
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Flintstone Modernism is a highly original, thought-provoking addition to the scholarship on postwar American architecture. It is valuable for considering material across many related fields, especially in light of recent thinking about queer culture. Lieber's idiosyncratic account gives others permission to write about the postwar era in a similarly free and passionate manner.-- Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians --
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-027993
Dewey Decimal
720.103
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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