Think Tank Aesthetics
midcentury modernism, the cold war, and the neoliberal present
$99.92
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2020
Summary
How the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.In Think Tank Aesthetics, Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operations research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism and set the terms for contemp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043526 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262043521 |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Author: | Pamela M. Lee |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Pamela M. Lee
Pamela M. Lee is Carnegie Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Yale University and the author of Object to Be Destroyed- The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Chronophobia- On Time in the Art of the 1960s, Forgetting the Art World (all published by the MIT Press) and The Glen Park Library- A Fairy Tale (no place press).
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