The Art-Architecture Complex
Published on 2. July 2013
320 pages
978-1-78168-492-4 (ISBN)
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Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a "global style" of architecture-as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano-analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies.
More than any art, today's global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the "art-architecture complex" provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis.
More than any art, today's global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the "art-architecture complex" provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-492-4 (9781781684924)
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The Art-Architecture Complex
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Hal Foster is the author of numerous books, including The Art-Architecture Complex, The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, and, with Richard Serra, Conversations about Sculpture. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he delivered the 2018 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington. He teaches at Princeton University, co-edits the journal October, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- One: Image-Building
- Part I: Global Styles
- Two: Pop Civics
- Three: Crystal Palaces
- Four: Light Modernity
- Part II: Architecture Vis-à-Vis Art
- Five: Neo-Avant-Garde Gestures
- Six: Postmodernist Machines
- Seven: Minimalist Museums
- Part III: Mediums After Minimalism
- Eight: Sculpture Remade
- Nine: Film Stripped Bare
- Ten: Painting Unbound
- Eleven: Building Contra Image
- Endnotes
- The Art-Architecture Complex Image Gallery
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- About the Author
