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Late Modernism/Postmodernism
As the International Style spread across the globe, architects looked to break free of the "glass box." Robert Venturi wrote Complexity and Contradiction based on his study of Guilo Romano, Vignola, and Michelangelo and came to celebrate the tawdry, the ornamental, and the historically arbitrary opening up a deeply human form of architecture that would nevertheless be transformed by Philip Johnson and others into branded structures that celebrate corporate identity
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El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth, 2011, bottle caps, material, material (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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