Making it modern
Subtitle: the history of Modernism in architecture and design
By: Aaron Betsky
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781940291154
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Modern movement (Architecture)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index.