Title: Relearning from Las Vegas /
Authors: Vinegar, Aron.; Golec, Michael J.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Scott Brown, Denise,; Venturi, Robert.; Architecture, Modern Philosophy
Contents: Introduction : instruction as provocation / Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec -- 1. Aesthetic or anaesthetic : a Nelson Goodman reading of the Las Vegas Strip / Ritu Bhatt -- 2. Format and layout in learning from Las Vegas / Michael J. Golec -- 3. Photorealism, kitsch, and Venturi / Jean-Claude Lebensztejn -- 4. Theory as ornament / Karsten Harries -- 5. Mobilizing visions : representing the American landscape / Katherine Smith -- 6. On billboards and other signs around (learning from) Las Vegas / John McMorrough -- 7. Signs taken for wonders / Dell Upton -- 8. The melodrama of expression and inexpression in the duck and decorated shed / Aron Vinegar -- 9. Learning from Las Vegas...and Los Angeles and Reyner Banham / Nigel Whiteley -- Contributors -- Publication history -- Index.