In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Pamela M. Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs.
In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs.
The label is dubious, because Berg displayed a profoundly ambivalent attitude toward the ideology of progress which his teacher articulated.
This is part of the ideology of progress whose facile prejudice is that the future is preferable to the past.
Adorno, who taught at Darmstadt for nine summers after his return to Germany, knew well that his beloved ideology of progress was yielding mixed results.
What causes this tension, he finds in his search of evolutionism's 250-year history, is the intimate relationship between evolution and the secular ideology of progress.
From Berg he absorbed the tenets of Schoenbergian philosophy, which held that music had to strike out into unknown regions in order to stay true to a Wagnerian ideology of progress.
They have always made a point of reminding us that we are not superior, but impoverished by our ideology of progress, and that we must seek the truth among the Sufi mystics or the whirling dervishes.
Conversely it has always been reactionary thought (in the best sense of the word), at least starting from the rejection of the French revolution, which has opposed the secular ideology of progress and propounded a return to traditional values.
What can disappear — what long ago disappeared, in fact, at least among rock bands — is the ideology of progress in pop music: the optimistic sense, shared by all those early-seventies pioneers, that the form was evolving and improving, and that prog rock offered a sneak peek at our future.
Through a detailed study of the daily life--eating habits, dress styles, housing, marriage and death rituals, religious practices, education, family organization--of the Hui inhabitants of Xi'an, the author explores the effects of a state-sponsored ideology of progress on an urban Chinese Muslim neighborhood.
