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Making it Modern
The History of Modernism in Architecture and Design
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This book is ideal for readers engaged with arts, culture, architecture, and design, including students, scholars, and professionals seeking a deeper understanding of modernism's place within the 20th-century creative landscape.
This book traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world.
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At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared.
Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has already appeared—an attempt to fix life as it is being lived. Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously. Modernism is a monument to or memory of that act, which in its own making tries to remake the world it is pretending to represent.
Making it Modern by Aaron Betsky explores these themes, presenting a nuanced view of modernism as both an action and a reflection. Through its examination, Betsky provides insight into the ever-evolving nature of what it means to be modern.
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Praised by Metropolis Magazine for its exploration of modernism's elusive effort to capture contemporary life, and recognised by the Midwest Book Review for its thoughtful, well-organised presentation, Making it Modern is an exceptionally insightful study highly recommended for professionals and academics interested in architectural history and contemporary design.
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ISBN: 9781940291154
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 January 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Edition: English
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 160.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 805g
Pages: 352
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About the Author
Aaron Betsky (born 1958) is a critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, as well as Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. He was previously the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Betsky was named as the director of the 11th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung.
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