American Artist Charles Cohan has fashioned an exhibit of iconic representations of runways and airport terminals - like the ones in the back pages of inflight magazines - which recently was on display at a Washington, D.C. art gallery, Curator's Office. In a monograph on Cohan, art historian Jaimey Hamilton writes, "A real sense of the passage of space and time between these airports is replaced by a regularized and deterritorialized grid. The result is a representation of our confused and dispersed postmodern geography.... [T]he steady repetition and the confusion of scale calls attention to the way that (post) modernity has regulated and enforced the multiple.Jn terms of the mass manufacture of vernacular architecture."
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