Books by Shelton Waldrep

Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture. This book examines a range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings.

Whether as a gay man or as a postmodern performance artist ahead of his time, Wilde ultimately emerges here as the embodiment of the twentieth-century media-savvy artist who is both subject and object of the aesthetic and economic systems in which he is enmeshed.