The study of Modernism has often been divided by a seemingly unbridgeable gap between what has been deemed " high " art, esoteric works intended for the privileged few, and " low " culture-works intended for the groveling masses. In the first category are traditional art forms such as painting, sculpture, and literature. The lower art forms include mass-produced works that are accessible by des...

03 "Monumentality," she vmtes, "creates the sense of social cohesion that is central to the consolidation of a community by impressing upon people the importance and power of a thing or a person Central to this impression of social power is the sense of long-lastingness; the perception that this city, building, institution, or artwork—and the values it represents— will last through generations,...

Renaat Braem’s Arenawijk in Antwerp is a key example of Belgian post-war modernism, representing the development social housing as state-building enterprise. Considering building’s continuous use and current redevelopment, this paper explores expansion Belgium’s legal heritage protection, which based on values. Additional ‘intentional values’ would focus […]

Over the course of twenty five years, approximately 1990 to 2015, American archaeologists grew accept regular use local knowledge, in form Native and community their development archaeological knowledge cultural resource management. This change mostly pushed engage with groups people that would have been ignored previously. transformation is part a larger process Modernism becoming Post via exp...

(NLR 146), Fredric Jameson argues that pastiche, rather than parody, is the appropriate mode of postmodernist culture. ‘Pastiche’, he writes, ‘is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar mask, speech in a dead language; but it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody’s ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongsid...

his native Italy in 1896, he intended to study medicine. Stella instead pursued art, which he studied at the Art Students League of New York under William Merritt Chase. During 1905–1909, Stella illustrated magazines, and he continued to draw throughout a career marked by numerous shifts in his style and approach to art. According to a brief bio from the Phillips Collection website, Stella “beg...