LEADER 05021oam 2200865I 450 001 9910809842903321 005 20240131142234.0 010 $a0-415-80689-5 010 $a1-315-81088-3 010 $a1-317-79387-0 010 $a1-317-79388-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315810881 035 $a(CKB)2550000001168728 035 $a(EBL)1574858 035 $a(OCoLC)865332423 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060819 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11665914 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060819 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11097932 035 $a(PQKB)10236294 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1574858 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1574858 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10813705 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL550014 035 $a(OCoLC)864900056 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137379 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001168728 100 $a20180706d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDeconstructing post-WWII New York City $ethe literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital /$fRobert Bennett 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (142 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in American popular history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-94606-9 311 $a1-306-18763-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 115-121) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aDeconstructing 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 327 $a""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 330 $aFirst Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 410 0$aAmerican popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm)) 517 3 $aDeconstructing post-World War II New York City 517 3 $aDeconstructing post-WW Two New York City 606 $aIntellectuals$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArts and society$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCity and town life$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArchitecture and society$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCity planning$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xCivilization$y20th century 615 0$aIntellectuals$xHistory 615 0$aArts and society$xHistory 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$xHistory 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics)$xHistory 615 0$aCity and town life$xHistory 615 0$aArchitecture and society$xHistory 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory 676 $a700/.9747/109045 700 $aBennett$b Robert$f1967-,$01707709 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809842903321 996 $aDeconstructing post-WWII New York City$94096160 997 $aUNINA