19: The Postmodern World
Introduction
With the many manifestos written in the early 1900s and the technological innovations arriving after WW II, the modern age was embraced allowing for more leisure time, and would ultimately be a time of progress, peace, prosperity, and happiness. The realities of the Modern Movement did not fulfill those high expectations, and art soon moved to counter and criticize the modern with the emergence of Pop Art and overall cynicism. Postmodern art allows the space for critical reflections on modern life as well as creating art from multiple periods. Postmodern artists can pull from the classical past, the Renaissance, world art, and the modern world to create art in a wide range of media. The visual art produced in this period still functions just as art has functioned for thousands of years - it moves us, its uses are many and varied including propaganda, visual delight, to protest, to inform, to educate, and for the fun of it.
Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 1962 Robert Venturi
https://video.pbsnc.org/video/geoffrey-baer-tours-9-vanna-venturi-house-web-exclusive/
SITE design for Best Products, Towson, Maryland circa. 1978
https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1781_300297029.pdf
https://failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/
550 Madison Avenue, Philip Johnson John Burgee
https://550madison.com/design/
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1977-83 James Stirling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzE5X2kVuog
Centre National d'Art et Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris 1971-77 Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DOVlROG-lY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC2NpJQCVHQ
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong, China 1979-86 Norman Foster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yp7tIbz6D8
Kansai Airport, 1988 Renzo Piano Building Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va4j-bcmuPI
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain 1992-97 Frank Lloyd Wright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrVCVJOcvzs
Vietnam Memorial, 1982 Maya Lin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuxjTxxQUTs