December 06, 2003
urban poetics?
More Walker Evans
This time it is a modernist monument to what used to be called the Machine Age; not a torn movie poster.
Chrysler Building Construction, New York City, 1930.
This is America as a nation that is less a place and more a process of becoming.
A becoming that allows us to see a historical time and a place. That historical time was when a progressive liberalism assumed that the application of science, technology and art to social problems would create a better society.
What was startign to be glossed over was the gap between American rhetoric and American reality due to liberalism's accommodation to corporate capitalism.
America had started its march to becoming an empire that ruled through the specific rules of the international economy that universalized capitalism.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at December 6, 2003 03:05 PM | TrackBack