Main entry:

Stierli, Martino, 1974-

Title & Author:

Las Vegas in the rearview mirror : the city in theory, photography, and film / Martino Stierli ; translation by Elizabeth Tucker.

Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, ©2013.

Description:

354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-342) and index.
The city in the book: the typography and design of Learning from Las Vegas ; A chronology of events ; The book as object ; The discourse in text and image : The rhetoric of types of representation: photography, tables, and maps; The correspondences between form and content; The typography from a historical perspective; The controversy between the authors and the graphic designers; The linguistic dimension -- The image of Las Vegas: the representation and discourse of an entertainment metropolis : A brief architectural history of the city ; The "apocalyptics" and the "integrated": the reception of Las Vegas in theory, literature, and film ; Las Vegas as an emblem of pop culture; on the culture theory of Tom Wolfe ; The dissolution of architecture into light: expressionism, Reyner Banham, and Archigram -- The city as image: on the phenomenology of the urban : Through the lens: Denise Scott Brown's urban photography ; Learning from Las Vegas, or representing the city ; Townscape: the city as image : Excursus: Camillo Sitte, townscape, and the picturesque ; "The perceptual form of the city": a research project at MIT ; Images of the city in pop art and conceptual art -- The city in motion: film, urban perception, and the mobilized gaze : Venturi and Scott Brown, the image of the city, and film ; The image of the city and the image sequence in the avant-garde ; Perceiving the city sequentially ; "The perceptual form of the city": the American context ; The view from the road: the windshield as movie screen ; Cinema, modernity, and the crisis of attention -- Strip, sprawl, and roadtown in the discourse on the city: concepts and debates related to mobility, architecture, and urban form : The decentralized city: theories and critique : From Main Street to the commercial strip; The linear city; Edgar Chambless's Roadtown and the critique of the megastructure; Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City; CIAM, Sigfried Giedion, and the core of the city ; Visual polemics against the form and iconography of roadtown: automobility and billboards in dispute : Excursus: On the rhetoric of the pictorial comparison ; Roadtown as a resource fro architecture and urbanism -- Pop: architecture between "high" and "low" : Pop art and "pop architecture" ; Architecture between critique and affirmation ; The fascination of the vulgar, or, Nostalgie de la Boue -- The city as communication: architecture between symbolism and monumentality : The city as a sign system ; The critique of functionalism ; The "metaphysical" city: Melvin Webber's "Nonplace urban realm" and Lewis Mumford's "Invisible city" ; Public space, urbanity, and monumentality.

Summary:

"For their seminal work Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour documented a sprawling postwar American city from a moving car. Martino Stierli examines their cinematic methodology against the background of contemporary photography and pop and conceptual art, including the work of artists Ed Ruscha and Stephen Shore, while highlighting Los Angeles as a cultural, urban, and architectural hot spot of the period. He considers how this approach relates to sociological theories and the phenomenology of urban spaces. He also sheds light on the polemics and controversies triggered by Learning from Las Vegas in architectural discourse and discusses them against models of high and low culture. Using both text and image, Stierli assesses the broad intellectual impact of this architectural manifesto and explains why the lessons from Learning from Las Vegas remain relevant for current debates in architecture and the arts."--Publisher's description.
"Learning from Las Vegas, published in 1972 by the architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, marks the turn in architectural theory from modern to postmodern. Martino Stierli explores the significance of this controversial publication by situating it in the artistic, architectural, and urbanist discourse of the 1960s and '70s, and by evaluating the book's enduring influence on visual studies and architectural research. Stierli provides an original, indepth analysis of the postmodern image of the city and the representation of urban form in visual media, graphics, and typography. Referencing cinematic visualization, the authors of Learning from Las Vegas documented a sprawling postwar American city from a moving car. Stierli examines this methodology against the background of contemporary pop and conceptual art, including the work of artists Ed Ruscha and Stephen Shore. Using both text and image, Stierli assesses the broad intellectual impact of this architectural manifesto and explains why the lessons from Learning from Las Vegas remain relevant today."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781606061374 (pbk.)
1606061372 (pbk.)

Subject:

Venturi, Robert.
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
Bibel Philemonbrief
Architecture Nevada Las Vegas History 20th century.
Symbolism in architecture Nevada Las Vegas.
Architecture Nevada Las Vegas Histoire 20e siècle.
Symbolisme en architecture Nevada Las Vegas.
Architecture
Buildings
Symbolism in architecture
Motiv
Fotografie
Las Vegas (Nev.) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
Nevada Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nev.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282844
Call No.: BIB 220693
Status: Available