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Who is the West? The “ Atlanticist ” version February 20, 2012. The “international style” in architecture - here: Mies van der Rohe and his Lake Shore Drive apartments (built 1949-51). Chicago’s Federal Plaza, also designed by Mies (built 1960-74). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Who is the West?The “Atlanticist” version
February 20, 2012
The “international
style” in architecture
- here: Mies van der Rohe and his Lake Shore Drive apartments
(built 1949-51)
Chicago’s Federal Plaza, also designed by Mies
(built 1960-74)
Mies in West Berlin:The New National Gallery, completed 1968
The “Chancellor’s Bungalow,” Bonn
(built 1963-66)
Danish modern furniture – a typical style in Europe and the US
Maria Callas (1923-1977)a trans-Atlantic diva
Leonard Bernstein(1918-1990)
New York’s answer to the European classical tradition
Pop art:
Robert Rauschenberg(1925-2008)
- example from 1963
Tom Wesselmann, Landscape No. 2 (1964)
A German collector of pop art, 1968
Pop art displayed at Berlin’s New National Gallery, 1969
The Frankfurt School of Social Research (closed 1933)…
Theodor Adorno(1903-1969)
… feeds into the New School for Social Research(Greenwich Village, NYC)
Other associated theorists:Max HorkheimerHannah ArendtClaude Lévi-Strauss
NATO in consultation: the North Atlantic Council(Athens, Greece, May 1962)
Polaris nuclear missile submarines
The launch of HMS Resolution,
Britain’s first Polaris
Cartoon lampooning the proposed “Multi-Lateral Force”
LBJ gives Chancellor Erhard a big Texas welcome
(Dec. 1963)