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Gehry Residence
Author: Frank Gehry
Year: 1978 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Gehry Residence
Author: Frank GehryYear: 1978 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
In fact, such rooms are preserved as in a museum: untouched, intact, yet now somehow "quoted" and without the slightest modification emptied, as in the transformation of something into an image of itself, of its concrete life, like a Disneyland preserved and perpetuated by Martians for their own delectation and historical research. As you go up the stillold-fashioned stairs of the Gehry house, you reach an old-fashioned door, through which you enter an old-fashioned maid's room (although it might just as well have been the bedroom of a teenager).
In fact, such rooms are preserved as in a museum: untouched, intact, yet now somehow "quoted" and without the slightest modification emptied, as in the transformation of something into an image of itself, of its concrete life, like a Disneyland preserved and perpetuated by Martians for their own delectation and historical research. As you go up the stillold-fashioned stairs of the Gehry house, you reach an old-fashioned door, through which you enter an old-fashioned maid's room (although it might just as well have been the bedroom of a teenager).
Epcot
Author: Walt Disney Company
Year: 1982 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Epcot
Author: Walt Disney CompanyYear: 1982 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The door is a time- travel device; when you close it, you are back in the old twentiethcentury American suburb -- the old concept of the room, which includes my privacy, my treasures, and my kitsch, chintzes, old teddy bears, old LP records. But the time-travel evocation is misleading: on the one hand, we have here praxis and reconstruction, much like Philip K. Dick's Wash-36, 17 a lovingly authentic reconstruction of the Washington of his boyhood in 1936 by a three-hundred-year-old millionaire on a satellite planet (or, if you prefer a quicker reference, like Disneyland or EPCOT); while, on the other hand, it is not exactly a reconstruction of the past at all, since this enclave space is our present and replicates the real dwelling spaces of the other houses on this street or elsewhere in Los Angeles today. Yet it is a present reality that has been transformed into a simulacrum by the process of wrapping, or quotation, and has thereby become not historical but historicist -- an allusion to a present out of real history which might just as well be a past removed from real history. The quoted room therefore also has affinities with what in film has come to be called la mode rétro, or nostalgia film: the past as fashion plate and glossy image.
The door is a time- travel device; when you close it, you are back in the old twentiethcentury American suburb -- the old concept of the room, which includes my privacy, my treasures, and my kitsch, chintzes, old teddy bears, old LP records. But the time-travel evocation is misleading: on the one hand, we have here praxis and reconstruction, much like Philip K. Dick's Wash-36, 17 a lovingly authentic reconstruction of the Washington of his boyhood in 1936 by a three-hundred-year-old millionaire on a satellite planet (or, if you prefer a quicker reference, like Disneyland or EPCOT); while, on the other hand, it is not exactly a reconstruction of the past at all, since this enclave space is our present and replicates the real dwelling spaces of the other houses on this street or elsewhere in Los Angeles today. Yet it is a present reality that has been transformed into a simulacrum by the process of wrapping, or quotation, and has thereby become not historical but historicist -- an allusion to a present out of real history which might just as well be a past removed from real history. The quoted room therefore also has affinities with what in film has come to be called la mode rétro, or nostalgia film: the past as fashion plate and glossy image.
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Source type: picture
Source type: picture