The post-modern reader
By: edited by Charles Jencks with Eva Branscome and Léa-Catherine Szacka
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: AD reader
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780470748671; 9780470748664
Subjects: Postmodernism
Description: "Post-Modernism has been debated, attacked and defended for over three decades. It is, however, not just a fashion or style but part of a greater movement in all areas of culture, and one which stubbornly persists like its parent, Modernism. The Post-Modern Reader is a seminal anthology that presents this trend in all its diversity, as a convergence in architecture and literature, sociology and cultural theory, feminism and theology, science and economics. For this new edition, editor Charles Jencks has provided an entirely new definitive introductory essay 'What Then Is Post-Modernism?' that reflects on the movement's coming of age. The book also encompasses essential classic texts on the subject by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi, while incorporating new articles by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, John Gray, Ihab Hassan and Anatole Kaletsky. Each text is introduced and contextualised for the reader with a new short introductory passage."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.