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Who is the West? The “ Atlanticist ” version February 20, 2012

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).

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Who is the West? The “ Atlanticist ” version February 20, 2012

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  1. Who is the West?The “Atlanticist” versionFebruary 20, 2012

  2. The “international style” in architecture- here: Mies van der Rohe and his Lake Shore Drive apartments (built 1949-51)

  3. Chicago’s Federal Plaza, also designed by Mies(built 1960-74)

  4. Mies in West Berlin:The New National Gallery, completed 1968

  5. The “Chancellor’s Bungalow,” Bonn(built 1963-66)

  6. Danish modern furniture – a typical style in Europe and the US

  7. Maria Callas(1923-1977)a trans-Atlantic diva

  8. Leonard Bernstein(1918-1990)New York’s answer to the European classical tradition

  9. Pop art:Robert Rauschenberg(1925-2008)- example from 1963

  10. Tom Wesselmann, Landscape No. 2 (1964)

  11. A German collector of pop art, 1968

  12. Pop art displayed at Berlin’s New National Gallery, 1969

  13. The Frankfurt School of Social Research (closed 1933)… Theodor Adorno(1903-1969)

  14. … feeds into the New School for Social Research(Greenwich Village, NYC) Other associated theorists:Max HorkheimerHannah ArendtClaude Lévi-Strauss

  15. NATO in consultation: the North Atlantic Council(Athens, Greece, May 1962)

  16. Polaris nuclear missile submarines

  17. The launch of HMS Resolution, Britain’s first Polaris

  18. Cartoon lampooning the proposed “Multi-Lateral Force”

  19. LBJ gives Chancellor Erhard a big Texas welcome(Dec. 1963)

  20. Tom Lehrer sings the“MLF Lullaby”(written 1964/65)

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