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Zusatztext 'While scholarship on the intersection between art and architecture is by no means novel! the editors and authors of Contemporary Art about Architecture: A Strange Utility illuminate a developing area of this crossing that is distinct and for which no other volume of its extent exists. The text's tone is highly academic and intended for audiences versed in contemporary art history ... This book is a welcome addition to the interdisciplinary literature of art and architecture! and it is highly recommended for libraries collecting in both contemporary art and architecture.' Arlis 'While the essays are rich in historical and archival evidence! they are also ontological investigations! grounded in theory. And together! they offer a framework for understanding the unique nature of contemporary art's relation to architecture in light of poststructuralism and the institutional critiques of the 1970s and 1980s.' Journal of Architectural Education Informationen zum Autor Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, USA. Nora Wendl is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at Portland State University, USA. An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subject. Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility is the first to address this topic in a detailed manner. Zusammenfassung An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subject. Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility is the first to address this topic in a detailed manner. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Prologue; Introduction! Isabelle Loring Wallace and Nora Wendl; Section I Origins: Approaching architecture: the case of Richard Serra and Michael Asher! Miwon Kwon; Replacing the hut: Dan Graham's Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube! Jennifer Johung. Section II Photography as Architecture: A becoming image: Candida Höfer's architecture of absence! Jae Emerling; Thomas Struth: architecture and allegory! Paula Carabell; N-O-W-H-E-R-E! Isabelle Loring Wallace. Section III Re-Building Mies' Modernism: Media as modern architecture! Beatriz Colomina; More almost nothing: Iñigo Manglano- Ovale and the performance of Mies van der Rohe's Baukunst! Matt Burgermaster; Image as architecture: Thomas Ruff and Mies van de Rohe! Martin Søberg. Section IV Re-Visionaries: The architecture of As If: Josiah McElheny's sculptural proposals! Spyros Papapetros; The pavilions of recollection: architecture and memory in contemporary Eastern European art! Levente Polyak; History re-visioned: Matthew Barney and the neo-Baroque! Rebecca Brantley. Section V Impossible Architectures/Immodest Proposals: Vitruvian figure(s)! Nora Wendl; Architecture future perfect: Lara Almarcegui and the 'ghost of content'! Jasmine Benyamin; The manifold dimensions of Janice Kerbel's architectural diagrams! Jakub Zdebik; Bibliography; Index. ...
