Sin City/Sim City - Las Vegas as Art Term Paper by Top Papers
Sin City/Sim City - Las Vegas as Art
A look at Las Vegas as a cultural and artistic icon.
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| 4,500 words
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| MLA
| 2009
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This paper discusses how Las Vegas has been an object of scholarly fascination at least since the early 1970's. Then, a study discussed how the city was a postmodern assault on modernist architecture and urban design. The paper explores Las Vegas as the world's first truly postmodern city. The hypothesis is that Las Vegas is a city which is emblematic of postmodernity, given its conflation of the real, the fake, and the kitsch within a hypermediated cultural space that is both theatrical and commercial.
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"Las Vegas has been an object of scholarly fascination at least since the early 1970s when Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour published Learning from Las Vegas as a decisive salvo in the postmodern assault on modernist architecture and urban design. Although often superficially derided as a city emblematic of America's crassness, crime and commercialism - the city of dated Rat Pack crooners and Elvis - Las Vegas began attracting the attention of scholars and cultural commentators who recognized in its multi-layered urban form the avatar of urban design's future. In this..."Cite this Term Paper:
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Sin City/Sim City - Las Vegas as Art (2009, December 01)
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"Sin City/Sim City - Las Vegas as Art" 01 December 2009.
Web. 23 September. 2019. <https://www.academon.com/term-paper/sin-city-sim-city-las-vegas-as-art-144000/>