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City Abandoned
A "deeply moving survey of the great civic structures that Philadelphia erected, then neglected."—Philadelphia Inquirer "An aesthetic masterpiece—most relevant and revealing for our time."—Robert Venturi With the photographs in this book, Vincent Feldman offers Philadelphians a testament of who we were, who we are, and who we are likely to become. Some of his subjects have succumbed to neglect or demolition (the Ridge Avenue Farmers' Market, for example); some have been successfully rehabilitated to new uses (the Victory Building); while others remain in limbo in their ruined states—their futures far from secure. Yet besides recording the current state of the buildings, Feldman's pho...
Chrysalis
A VIBRANT SAMPLE OF THE WORKS OF VISUAL ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE CENTER FOR EMERGING VISUAL ARTISTS¿ PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS (POST), Chrysalis CELEBRATES THE WORK OF ARTISTS WHO CONVENE AN ANNUAL, PUBLIC, CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF ART NOW IN ITS 8TH YEAR. VISITORS TO POST ARTISTS¿ STUDIOS, IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY, EXPERIENCE A DIVERSE, AND LIVELY, BODY OF ARTWORK--BOTH COMPLETED AND IN PROGRESS--INCLUDING PAINTING, DRAWING, SCULPTURE, PRINTMAKING, PHOTOGRAPHY, FURNITURE, INSTALLATION, JEWELRY, CERAMICS, GLASSWORKS, AND FIBER ARTS, DYNAMIC EXAMPLES OF WHICH ARE PRESENT IN THIS VOLUME.
Empire of Ruins
Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have meant to Americans and how their representation in photography--often both beautiful and terrifying--has shaped their meaning.
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The Metabolist Imagination
Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors The devastation of the Second World War gave rise to imaginations both utopian and apocalyptic. In Japan, a fascinating confluence of architects and science fiction writers took advantage of this space to begin remaking urban design. In The Metabolist Imagination, William O. Gardner explores the unique Metabolism movement, which allied with science fiction authors to foresee the global cities that would emerge in the postwar era. This first comparative study of postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction builds on the resurgence of interest in Metabolist architecture w...
Climatic Media
In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan’s empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically “condition” Earth’s atmosphere and socially “condition” the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko’s fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who sought to design climate-controlled capsule housing and domed cities. Furuhata’s transpacific analysis offers a novel take on the elemental conditions of media and climate change.
Politics, Intellectuals, and Faith
This wide-ranging collection of essays examines modern intellectuals and ideologues. Matthew Feldman calls attention to the substantial role played in post-Great War Europe and the United States by religions--both familiar monotheisms like Christianity and secular 'political faiths'--over the last century of upheaval.
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A kaleidoscope of the youth culture of modern Japan: sex-obsessed, star-struck and violent, struggling to overcome hidebound traditions that nevertheless pervade a world encompassed by bobbysox and Sony. This collection of photographs introduces Western audiences to Japanese sub-cultures.
