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Stockholms City
Changed and moderated during 1960s Less focus on highways and traffic
Htorgshusen
1956-62
This is Claes Oldenburgs New York This is the New York of Ray Gun (1960)
Construction/destruction of Lincoln Center 1955-65
Total
Sculptural Ahistoric
Le Corbusier Plan Voisin, 1925
Alternative modernisms
Sdra ngby, Stockholm, 1933-40 Sege Park, Malm, 1936
GREENWHICH VILLAGE
A childish and dadaesque reaction against renewal scheme Critique often focused on picturesque and romantic elements of old city. E.g. Jane Jacobs Oldenburgs The Street is very different I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap
An appreciation and love for the irrationalities and filth of the city Rem Koolhaas Delirious New York. Congestion
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. An alternative vision of New York. An irrational, inconsistent, illogical and chaotic New York. Carnivalesque delight in disorder and nonsense Snapshots From the City A praise of life over abstraction
Importance of space
What does this do to the work? Does this shift meaning and understanding?
How important is the broader spatial environment for a works meaning, production and audience reception?