Deconstructing post-WWII New York City : the literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital / / Robert Bennett
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Bennett Robert <1967-, >
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Deconstructing post-WWII New York City : the literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital / / Robert Bennett
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (142 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 700/.9747/109045 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century |
| New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century | |
| New York (N.Y.) Civilization 20th century | |
| 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Deconstructing post-World War II New York City |
| Deconstructing post-WW Two New York City | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Deconstructing post-WWII New York City |
| ISBN: | 0-415-80689-5 |
| 1-315-81088-3 | |
| 1-317-79387-0 | |
| 1-317-79388-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790832903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))