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Article: Postmodern Progression;Pastiche or Genuine Advance? The Argument Rages On.
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- The Washington Post
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- March 19, 1988
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You can find them in Washington and in Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Boston, Houston and Pittsburgh, and, I would guess,
almost anywhere in between-new office buildings every bit as banal as
the not-so-new ones but different looking, with a pediment tacked on
here and a couple of columns there. Or shopping centers updated with
here a cupola, there a turret, everywhere a soupc- on of a "style"
everybody recognizes to be "postmodern."
Is there a postmodern style? Is it just a pastiche of ineptly
applied, poorly understood historical details, a "fun" disguise for
persistent, antihumanist values? (For a big yes to this question, see
the review of Nancy Wolf's drawings on Page C2.) Is it an ...