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Deconstructivism came to public notice with the 1982 Parc de la Villette architectural design competition, in particular the entry from Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman [3] and the winning entry by Bernard Tschumi, as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition in New York, organized by Philip Johnson ...
Jacques Derrida (/ ˈ d ɛr ɪ d ə /; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; [6] 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
It is believed that the term "deconstructivism" in relation to fashion began to be used after an architectural exhibition in 1988 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [7] The work that summarized the basic principles of deconstructivism in the 1990s can be considered the text by Alison Gill "Deconstruction Fashion: The Making of Unfinished ...
Magliola's On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture [51] (1997; 2000–) has been robustly endorsed by Joseph S. O'Leary, Edith Wyschogrod, and John D. Caputo. Its first part is an exercise in Derridean "oto-biography", and its last part adapts some Derridean thought-motifs to Catholicism's theology of the Trinity .
In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning.The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances.
Note: there is overlap with what is considered "contemporary art" and "modern art." Contemporary Greek art – 1945 Greece; Vienna School of Fantastic Realism – 1946, Austria; Neo-Dada – 1950s, international; International Typographic Style – 1950s, Switzerland; Soviet Nonconformist Art – 1953 – 1986, Soviet Union
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements.
In his book Moderne Architektur (1895) he had called for a more rationalist style of architecture, based on "modern life". [17] He designed a stylized ornamental metro station at Karlsplatz in Vienna (1888–89), then an ornamental Art Nouveau residence, Majolika House (1898), before moving to a much more geometric and simplified style, without ...