Flinstone Modernism or The Crisis in Postwar American Culture

In new assessments of the major architects of the period, Lieber uncovers the cultural and political fantasies that animated or impinged on their work, offering surprising insights into Gordon Bunshaft’s commonsense classicism; Eero Saarinen’s architectural narratives of ersatz empire and Marcel Breuer’s mania for Egyptian monoliths; and Edward Durell Stone’s romantic 'flights of fancy' and Philip Johnson’s wicked brand of cynical cultural and sociopolitical critique.