05021oam 2200865I 450 991079083290332120230207232304.00-415-80689-51-315-81088-31-317-79387-01-317-79388-910.4324/9781315810881 (CKB)2550000001168728(EBL)1574858(OCoLC)865332423(SSID)ssj0001060819(PQKBManifestationID)11665914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060819(PQKBWorkID)11097932(PQKB)10236294(MiAaPQ)EBC1574858(Au-PeEL)EBL1574858(CaPaEBR)ebr10813705(CaONFJC)MIL550014(OCoLC)864900056(FINmELB)ELB137379(EXLCZ)99255000000116872820180706d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeconstructing post-WWII New York City the literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital /Robert BennettNew York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (142 p.)Studies in American popular history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-94606-9 1-306-18763-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-121) and index.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 FairThe 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 UrbanismDeconstructing 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; IndexFirst Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))Deconstructing post-World War II New York CityDeconstructing post-WW Two New York CityIntellectualsNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryArts and societyNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryAvant-garde (Aesthetics)New York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)New York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryCity and town lifeNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryArchitecture and societyNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryCity planningNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryNew York (N.Y.)Intellectual life20th centuryNew York (N.Y.)Social conditions20th centuryNew York (N.Y.)Civilization20th centuryIntellectualsHistoryArts and societyHistoryAvant-garde (Aesthetics)HistoryModernism (Aesthetics)HistoryCity and town lifeHistoryArchitecture and societyHistoryCity planningHistory700/.9747/109045Bennett Robert1967-,1567189MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790832903321Deconstructing post-WWII New York City3838407UNINA