Use examples from the chapter to define the term "postmodernism." Include a discussion of Robert Venturi and the Las Vegas strip
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
1. Postmodernism is associated with disjunction.
2. This disjunction is exemplified in the two towers in Gehry's and Miluni?'s Rasin Building, which move in different directions yet remain connected.
3. Robert Venturi's 1972 book on Las Vegas described the collision of styles, signs, and symbols of the American "strip" as a new sort of unity.
4. The new unity is considered postmodern in that it includes everything, whereas as traditional art excludes elements not considered "artful."
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