SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Brad Mehldau, Robert Venturi
29 Sep 2016
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Postmodern music: breaks music rules of past, mixing of different styles, music connected to culture, politics, and society, role of technology, explores contradictions, fragmentation and discontinuity, locates meaning in listeners. Modern architecture: characterized by minimalism and simplicity, lack of ornamentation, consistency, mies van der rohe: less is more . Postmodern architecture: diversity, eclecticism, experimentation, collision of styles, borrowing form the past and reinterpreting it, many different meanings and interpretations, aesthetics, ornamentation, beauty, consistency with geographical and social context, robert venturi (1966) less is a bore . Postmodernism: religion: bibby: religion a la carte , a lot of canadians are borrowing from other religions, blending with other kinds of activities (e. g. yoga, in cents, reading) Consumerism: defining ourselves by what we buy, sociologists talk about subcultures and counterculture, subcultures: are smaller groups within the larger culture that might hold distinct values.
