Deconstructing post-WWII New York City : the literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital / / Robert Bennett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453636403321
• Autore: Bennett Robert <1967-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 0-415-80689-5; 1-315-81088-3; 1-317-79387-0; 1-317-79388-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (142 p.)
• Collana: Studies in American popular history and culture
• Disciplina: 700/.9747/109045
• Soggetti: Intellectuals - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Arts and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Modernism (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; City and town life - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Architecture and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; City planning - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Electronic books.; New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century; New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century; New York (N.Y.) Civilization 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-121) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky ... Little Boxes All the Same"":Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City; The City andthe Arts: Theorizing Urban Space and Urban Culture; Frontiers for a Free Poetic Life:The Aesthetic Politics of Urban Space; Chapter One. Constructing ; the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject:The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair; The Futurama's ""Vaguely Miesian"" Dream Cities: The Urban Ideology ofDavid Gelernter's 1939, The Lost World of the Fair""[W]e must Bulid them the Higways so they can Sell us the Cars"": Deconstructingthe Fair's Corporate Edeology; The Future will be ""AsAmerican as Coca-Cola"": The ""Goddam Battle Zone"" of Miles Beller's Dream of Venus; Chapter Two. ""Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!"": Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism; From Industrial to Postindustrial Urbanism; Deconstructing the International Style Modernist Corporate Skyscraper:George Oppen's Critique of Lever HouseChapter Three. The ""eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered thecities"": The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature; Radicalizing Jazz Literature: From the Beat Generation tothe Black Arts Movement; Chapter Four.""I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum"": Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces; ""Literature as Destruction of Space"": The Precarious Architecture ofBarbara Quest's Spatial Imagination; ""Everything / Suddenly Honks: It is 12:40 of / a Thursday"": Frank O'Hara'sNew York SublimeConclusion:""Less is a bore"": Imagining the Postmodern City; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.