International postmodern architecture

Author: Yin Guojun
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Publication Date: 2000-04-01
Features: "Post-Modernism" is a very broad cultural concept that involves religion, politics, and literary arts, among other aspects. The concept dates back to the 1950s or earlier, but it fully emerged as a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s and 1980s. In terms of art, the earliest theories of postmodernism may have originated in the field of architecture. For a long time, Western scholars have held divergent and mixed views on postmodernism. This book discusses postmodern painting abroad. The term "postmodernism" does not refer to a doctrine or school; it represents an era, a cultural condition, and a phenomenon—it was a cultural trend that emerged around the 1960s in France and the United States. It was not even a mainstream trend but rather a pan-cultural mood or feeling. Postmodern architecture, based on this historical background—that is, the non-human scale created by the boxy style of the early 20th-century modernist master Le Corbusier, which had dominated world architectural design—therefore, its playful techniques, irrationality, and narrative methods introduced new grammatical rules for our "reading." This book includes 128 black and white and color images of postmodern architecture from abroad.