The postmodern arts : an introductory reader /
Series: Critical readers in theory and practicePublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.Description: xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 0415126118
- 9780415126113
- 9780415077767
- 0415077761
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Postmodernism: a new representation? Paradigms of the postmodern -- Modernism and its consequences: continuity or break? -- Postmodernism: from elite to mass culture? -- Conclusion: resisting the postmodern -- Part II. Essays on postmodernism. One: Popular culture. Introduction -- Popular music and postmodern theory -- Recognizing a "human- Thing": cyborgs, robots and replicants in Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" -- Two: Architecture and visual arts. Introduction -- Melancholy meanings: architecture, postmodernity and philosophy -- "The World is Indeed a Fabluous Tale": Yve Lomax-a practice around philosophy -- Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's "TV Dante" -- Three: Literature. Introduction -- A new subjectivity? John Ashbery's "Three poems" -- Reading "The Satanic Verses" -- Four: The real and the true: documentary film. The totalizing quest of meaning.