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Chris Rodrigues

Introducing Modernism

  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    His utopian designs for the future have now become associated with a discredited modernist dream, our contemporary urban dystopia.
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    Le Corbusier (1887–1965). His concept of the house as “a machine to live in”
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    The city could also function as utopian map.
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    THE CITY IS ABOUT AN ATTITUDE TO MODERN LIFE, A STATE OF MIND.
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    For Benjamin, the lure and fascination of modern city life lay in its surface narratives, the ephemeral, the fugitive, the new.
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    These developments gave birth to industrialized mass societies hungry for every form of consumer item, fashion and entertainment.
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    Modernity and modernism are centrally located in urban culture and the great capital cities – Paris (3 million), London (5 million), Berlin (2 million) and New York (5 million).
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) made the parallels clear in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936).
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    Even films made in the commercial “dream factory” of Hollywood often have a surreal edge.
  • orsonem27цитирует4 года назад
    “all the modernist arts aspire towards the condition of advertising”.
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