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Building-Art - Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction

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Klappentext Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s. Zusammenfassung Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism! Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s! which are particularly relevant in the light of Postmodernism's demise. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Sources [of previously published essays]; Introduction; 1. Bentham's panopticon: an architectural perpetration; 2. Politics of style: Dublin pro-cathedral in the Greek revival; 3. An American utopian schoolhouse design; 4. Note on Sullivan and the use of beauty; 5. De Chirico's pathos of lost antiquity; 6. Text life of the living machine; 7. Reflections in onyx on Mies van der Rohe; 8. Ex Tenebras Lux: approaching the Ronchamp Wall of Light; 9. Kahn: the anxious classicist; 10. Crystalline form! Worringer and the minimalism of Tony Smith; 11. Form behind concept: the Bechers' imaging of industrial architecture; 12. Classical Sass: Notes on soft postmodernism; 13. Tired tropes: cathedral vs. bicycle shed; 'duck' vs. decorated shed; Notes; Index.

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Authors J. Masheck, Joseph Masheck, Joseph (Hofstra University Masheck
Assisted by Donald Kuspit (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 28.05.1993
 
EAN 9780521447850
ISBN 978-0-521-44785-0
No. of pages 316
Series Cac
Contemporary Artists and Their
Cac
Contemporary Artists and their Critics
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)

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