Everything at Once: Postmodernity 1967–1992 traces the twenty-five years in which Modernism's certainties collapsed and an entirely different cultural logic — plural, image-saturated, and self-consciously excessive — took hold across architecture, design, cinema, philosophy, and pop.
About This Book
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, this book treats 1967 as a genuine historical rupture: the moment when the utopian project of Modernism gave way to a world organised around subcultures, spectacle, and the proliferating images of nascent information society. Postmodernism here is not a stylistic footnote but a structural shift — visible in the amusement-park urbanism theorised by architects, the deliberate vulgarity of Memphis furniture, the sudden museum-building boom, and the unleashing of financial markets. The catalogue draws on architecture, interior design, art, literature, and political history to map a period that closed, symbolically, with the end of the Cold War and Fukuyama's proclamation of history's end. Thirty years on, with Postmodernism again contested terrain, the argument feels newly urgent.
Key Features
- 256 pages of exhibition catalogue scholarship spanning architecture, design, art, cinema, philosophy, and popular culture from 1967 to 1992
- Photography by Klaus Kinold
- Published by Hirmer Verlag, 1992
What You'll Discover
- How architects reframed the amusement park as a model for the postmodern city, abandoning the egalitarian housing ideals of High Modernism
- The role of new media in synchronising global image culture and transforming style into a competitive arena for identity and recognition
- The explosion of museum construction as a defining architectural phenomenon of the period — culminating in the Bundeskunsthalle itself, the exhibition's largest exhibit
- The cultural logic connecting disco, punk, techno-pop, shoulder pads, and Memphis furniture as expressions of a shared postmodern condition rather than isolated trends
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 256
- Dimensions: 24 x 2.21 x 27.99 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783777442761
- Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
- Publication Date: 1992
Perfect For: Architects, designers, and cultural historians with an interest in postmodern theory, twentieth-century design history, and the relationship between built form, image culture, and political change.