The Story of Post-Modernism
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture, published in 2011, was the last book by Charles Jencks. Jencks discusses the history of Post-modernism, especially in the fields of art and architecture during the last five decades (since 1960).[1] Jencks argues that since the beginning of the millennium, post-modernism has experienced a deep rebirth which should be studied.[2][3]
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| Country | United States |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Theory and History of Art & Architecture |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| ISBN | 978-0470688953 |
The Story of Post-Modernism has divided its narration into seven parts which are both in order of time and lap-jointed. It illustrate the way post-modern movement has gone up and down passing through different train of thoughts. Using many pictures and diagrams, Jencks in each chapter focuses on the main works of a given period and offers a deep analysis of them.[4]
Jencks in the book explains on why he is using the term Post-Modernism and not postmodernism as this:[5]
As an unfinished movement of five decades, Post-Modernism is still contentious, and critics disagree over its meaning. The different spellings reflect this, including the streamlined version of a single word, Postmodernism. Yet, since critics agree that the designation refers to the era of pluralism after Modernism, I prefer the hyphenated version a spelling that underscores its double-coding. It is of course tiresome to reread the same phrase again and again, so I will refer to pm, lower case, when it is a general social phenomenon, PM when it is the artistic or cultural movement, and PoMo when it is the mass-cultural genre, or even kitsch. Need it be said that the era of post-modernity only refers to a minority of culture where Modernism, modernisation and modernity are still the desired states of much of the globe?
- Post-Modernism or PM = The artistic or cultural movement
- PoMo = the mass cultural genre
- pm = the general social phenomenon
See also
References
- Haddad, Elie, 2009, Charles Jencks and the historiography of Post-Modernism, The Journal of Architecture Volume 14 Number 4
- "Post-Modernism Resurgent: Ten buildings that made a difference - DesignCurial". www.designcurial.com.
- Fournier, Colin (October 30, 2011). "Reassessing Postmodernism".
- Jencks, Charles (October 17, 2011). The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture. ISBN 9780470688953.
- Jencks, Charles. 2011, The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture, John Wiley & Sons.