{"product_id":"critical-modernism-isbn-9780470030103","title":"Critical Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that \u003ci\u003emany\u003c\/i\u003e modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a 'critical mass,' a Modernism\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e, and become a conscious tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e  Preface - A refolution in five parts.  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 ORIGINS AND BATTLES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePM is Critical Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e The Many Deaths of Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e Two Views of Post-Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e Post-modern Speaks Us.\u003cbr\u003e Screams in the Cathedral.\u003cbr\u003e Modernism as a Protestant Crusade.\u003cbr\u003e Success Tames the Avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 HYBRID CULTURE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDouble Coding and Irony.\u003cbr\u003e Not Even Pastiche.\u003cbr\u003e Complexity and the Enigmatic Signifier.\u003cbr\u003e Post-modern Art - Cross-coding with Content.\u003cbr\u003e Irony on the Verge of Cynicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 THE BLURRED SOCIETY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the Cognitariat.\u003cbr\u003e The Triumph of the Muddle Class.\u003cbr\u003e The Rise of Socitalism.\u003cbr\u003e Cyclical, Linear and Crystalline Time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 WANING NATIONS, RISING HETERARCHY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDestructive Modernity.\u003cbr\u003e The Transnational Heterarchy.\u003cbr\u003e New World Order as Heterarchy.\u003cbr\u003e Being Wise before the Event.\u003cbr\u003e The Post-modern States.\u003cbr\u003e One Cheer for the EU.\u003cbr\u003e The Search for an Effective Heterarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 COSMOGENESIS AND THE UNIVERSE PROJECT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelief in a Universe 13.7 Billion Years Big.\u003cbr\u003e Complexity as a Measure of Quality.\u003cbr\u003e Two Types of Evolution.\u003cbr\u003e A Cultural Drive?.\u003cbr\u003e The Universe Project.\u003cbr\u003e A Jumping Universe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 CRITICAL MODERNISM.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreative to be Critical.\u003cbr\u003e A Critical Iconography.\u003cbr\u003e A Critical Coding.\u003cbr\u003e A Critical Spirituality?\u003cbr\u003e Critical Theory Carves up Doomsday Fatigue.\u003cbr\u003e Critical Modernism as a Continuous Dialectic.\u003cbr\u003e The White Elephant Theory of Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e The Ten-year Rule and Continuous Refolution.\u003cbr\u003e Hidden Tradition or Process?\u003cbr\u003e Critical Modernism - a Conscious Movement?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u0026amp; References.\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements.\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Charles Jencks has revamped his seminal tome on postmodernism\". (\u003ci\u003eIcon Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e June 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The post man still delivers\" (\u003ci\u003eBuilding Design\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we're all modernists now.\" (\u003ci\u003eBDonline,\u003c\/i\u003e April 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/b\u003e is the well-known writer, landscape designer and author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Post-Modern Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (re-issued as \u003ci\u003eThe New Paradigm in Architecture,\u003c\/i\u003e 2002). He has also written numerous other books on contemporary arts and building, including \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of the Jumping Universe\u003c\/i\u003e (second edition, 1997), \u003ci\u003eThe Iconic Building\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and is the editor with Karl Kropf of \u003ci\u003eTheories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (second edition, 2006, also Wiley-Academy). His celebrated garden in Scotland is the subject of his book \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of Cosmic Speculation\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and in 2004 the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, won the Gulbenkian Prize for Museums for his design, Landform Ueda.\u003c\/p\u003e  After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating Critical Modernism today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that \u003ci\u003emany\u003c\/i\u003e modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a ‘critical mass,’ a Modernism\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e, and become a conscious tradition.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Jenkins, Journalist and Author:\u003c\/b\u003e ‘After 200 years of hyperactive and sometimes disastrous adolescence, Modernism finally may be growing up and coming to terms with its own problems. In this challenging work Jencks shows why, and what it may look like.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Buruma, Author and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eHenry R Luce Professor at Bard College\u003c\/b\u003e: ‘Charles Jencks does not necessarily court your agreement; he wants you to think, and then think again. He is an enemy of received opinions and sloppy clichés. That is what makes his latest book so provocative and such a delight to read.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFelipe Fernandez Armesto, Professor of History, Tufts University:\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Charles Jencks never stops refreshing our minds. Now – on a subject on which his previous work seemed insuperable – he breaks new ground. He redefines postmodernism’s place in modernity and, with his usual wit, clarity and fluency, he explains how and why the grandest of grand narratives – our integrated history of the universe – survives and thrives.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRem Koolhaas, Architect and Author:\u003c\/b\u003e ‘That Critical Modernism is a tautology turned into an oxymoron is perhaps its greatest strength: as Jencks argues, the critical and the modern certainly need each other.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989006794981,"sku":"NP9780470030103","price":103.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470030103.jpg?v=1761782407","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/critical-modernism-isbn-9780470030103","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}