Two Words, One Answer.
David Brooks
 Worlds Away $34.95 The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with manicured suburban lawns and the inchoate darkness that lurks just beneath the surface--these stereotypes belie a more realistic understanding of contemporary suburbia and its dynamic transformations. Organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes is the first major museum exhibition to examine both the art and architecture of the contemporary American suburb. Featuring paintings, photographs, prints, architectural models, sculptures and video from more than 30 artists and architects, including Christopher Ballantyne, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Gregory Crewdson, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Dan Graham and Larry Sultan, Worlds Away demonstrates the catalytic role of the American suburb in the creation of new art and prospective architecture. Conceived as a revisionist and even contrarian take on the conventional wisdom surrounding suburban life, the catalogue features new essays and seminal writings by John Archer, Robert Beuka, Robert Breugmann, David Brooks, Beatriz Colomina, Malcolm Gladwell and others, as well as a lexicon of suburban neologisms.  The Necessity of Atheism $24.99 I thought it was very well written and expressed many instances which I had never thought of. Before this I had read Nietzsche's Antichrist and compared to that book, The Necessity of Atheism was much easier to understand to me.  On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now $28.95 A New York Times Bestseller The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise takes a witty look at middle-class, suburban America. Responding to those who regard us as the great bimbos of the globe, he asks: Are we as shallow as we look? Is there anything that unites us across the divides of politics, race, class, and geography? What does it mean to be American? Available only in Americana 5. |
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