In a world of perplexity and constant transformation, Jencks has the reader recognize the simultaneous connections of classicism, the modern, and the postmodern through a significant collection of canons regarding forms of art and architecture. He gives us this idea of 'disharmonious harmony', using it as a general criticism of a fragmented view of this universe, but also presents consciousness and recognition of how this universe is evolving. The idea of 'disharmonious harmony' is of course a paradox that he explains by using examples of art and architecture. Jencks defines art as 'suggestive narrative', and architecture as 'radical eclecticism', which is a pluralistic embodiment of the old and new world (serving as my interpretation).
The reason I find why art and architecture was the elaborated topic example, is because these are forms of structuralism that are carried, inherited, and serve to inspire a newer form to not take the predecessors place, but to reinvent and create newer meaning. However, this speaks primarily towards art. Architecture is a metaphysical history, where I mean the art form is an actual piece of the world's past, but remains temporary until it is near collapse or merely replaced due to the advancing world. Postmodern architects are influenced by many eclectic structures of the past and present, and just like art, the influences reverberate throughout their style when it too becomes an eclectic structure.
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The article had me thinking about where we are placed socially, culturally, and structurally in our present, in comparison to our recent predecessors. As we age toward the future "it is likely to deepen as it synthesizes the distant and more recent past, as it sustains more profoundly the Western tradition of humanism." (294)
The idea of synthesizing the recent past brought music to mind, in regards as an art form of interpretation. I do very much agree of Tomas' statement, being that Jazz music is postmodern. What I find to be a more recent example, and one of a thousand, is a synthesis of Rock music. Primarily consisting of guitarists, bassists, singers and drummers, the genre stands as a predecessor that influences what I present as Post-Rock. It incorporates the instrumental faculties of a stereotypical rock band, but instead musicians use their instruments to evoke emotion through abstract ambience that results in a speechless, harmonic allegory.
This Will Destroy You - Burial on the Presidio Banks
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