The Built Surface, 2-volume set
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 22. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
662 pages
978-0-7546-0024-4 (ISBN)
Description
Since antiquity, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed a relationship between the arts; modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. Published in two volumes, The Built Surface offers a series of essays in which the authors reverse this trend and examine cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment. The exchanges between architecture and pictures explored by these authors are found to be in all cases significantly expressive of their respective social, political, and intellectual histories.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1759 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-0024-4 (9780754600244)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Christy Anderson, Yale University, USA and Karen Koehler Yale University and Smith College Christy Anderson, Karen Koehler, Barry Bergdoll, Susan Sidlauskas, Alina Payne, Amy Ogata, Juliet Koss, Iain Boyd Whyte, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Peter Chametzky, Romy Golan, Christopher Pearson, Haim Finkelstein, Peter Barr, 'Terrence Diggory, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Content
Contents: Preface, Christy Anderson and Karen Koehler; List of illustrations; Introduction, Karen Koehler; Felix Duban, Early Photography and the Circulation of Images, Barry Bergdoll; 'Great Gaps and Voids': John Singer Sargent's Interior Abyss, Susan Sidlauskas; Architecture, Ornament and Pictorialism: Notes on the History of the Idea, Alina Payne; Henry van de Velde's Bloemenwerf: English Books and Belgian Art Nouveau, Amy Ogata; Empathy and Abstraction at the Munich Artists's Theatre, Juliet Koss; The Expressionist Sublime, Iain Boyd Whyte; Scratching the Membrane: Photography and Building in Early Twentieth Century Southern Nigeria, Ikem Stanley Okoye; From Werkbund to Entartung: Willi Baumeister's 'Wall Pictures' Peter Chametzky; From Monument to Muralnomad: The Mural in Modern European Architecture, Romy Golan; Le Corbusier's 'Synthesis of the Major Arts' in the Context of the French Reconstruction, Christopher Pearson; Skyscraper Vision in Early Science Fiction, Haim Finkelstein; Berenice Abbott's 'Changing New York' and Urban Planning Debates, Peter Barr; 'Picturesque' Urban Pastoral in Post-War New York City, Terrence Diggory; Constructed Grounds: New Strategies in Contemporary European Architecture, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Index.