ANALYSIS OF THE WORKS BY FRANK GEHRY & STEFAN SAGMEISTER IN RELATION TO DEFINITIONS OF POSTMODERNISM
ANALYSIS OF THE WORKS BY
FRANK GEHRY & STEFAN SAGMEISTER
IN RELATION TO DEFINITIONS OF
POSTMODERNISM
CONTENTS
ABSTRACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
POSTMODERNISM. ARCHITECTURE. FRANK GEHRY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
STRUGGLE. ANXIETY. SAGMEISTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CONCLUSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
LIST OF REFERENCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
LIST OF FIGURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
ABSTRACT
Postmodernism goes through the work of many artists, writers, architects, philosophers, as a stage or the final result of the work. It still causes a lot of disputes over its subjects. This paper is an attempt to analyse postmodernism through works of
Stefan Sagmeister and Frank Gehry and answer the question what is postmodernism, the era or extended transition period of searching the abstract truth.
‘Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination .’
— Jean Baudrillard
INTRODUCTION
Postmodernism — the current state of art, culture and society. Two pillars of postmodernism — is the use of preprinted forms and irony. Now in our country and the rest of the world the process of building the future is difficult, not only due to the exhaustion of free physical space (globalization), but free information space. The latter phenomenon is commonly referred to as ‘post-modern’.
Lyotard attempts to
FRANK GEHRY & STEFAN SAGMEISTER
IN RELATION TO DEFINITIONS OF
POSTMODERNISM
CONTENTS
ABSTRACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
POSTMODERNISM. ARCHITECTURE. FRANK GEHRY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
STRUGGLE. ANXIETY. SAGMEISTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CONCLUSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
LIST OF REFERENCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
LIST OF FIGURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
ABSTRACT
Postmodernism goes through the work of many artists, writers, architects, philosophers, as a stage or the final result of the work. It still causes a lot of disputes over its subjects. This paper is an attempt to analyse postmodernism through works of
Stefan Sagmeister and Frank Gehry and answer the question what is postmodernism, the era or extended transition period of searching the abstract truth.
‘Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination .’
— Jean Baudrillard
INTRODUCTION
Postmodernism — the current state of art, culture and society. Two pillars of postmodernism — is the use of preprinted forms and irony. Now in our country and the rest of the world the process of building the future is difficult, not only due to the exhaustion of free physical space (globalization), but free information space. The latter phenomenon is commonly referred to as ‘post-modern’.
Lyotard attempts to
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