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A history of modernism in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard.
Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393730487
A history of modernism in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard.
Author : Greg Castillo
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : 9781935963097
Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia accompanies an exhibition of the same title examining the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal and professional norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus Rucker Co and ONYX; the media-based installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills and Mark Boyle and Helio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances staged by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz Magazine and The Whole Earth Catalog and books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much, much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the experimental graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan of USCO, Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus Rucker Co, Ken Isaacs, Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX, Franco Raggi of Global Tools, Tony Martin, Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City, and new scholarly writings, this book explores the hybrid conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.
Author : Jill E. Pearlman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813926025
"In this book Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect changes alone and, further, that the Harvard Graduate School of Design was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. - She offers a crucial missing piece to the story - and to the history of modern architecture - by focusing on Joseph Hudnut, the school's dean and founder."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Elaine S. Hochman
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Documents the struggle of Walter Gropius and his efforts to keep his utopian vision of a school financially afloat amidst political and ideological conflicts within the faculty.
Author : Emilio Gentile
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : History
ISBN :
During the inter-war period, Italy saw the rapid development of ultra-nationalist & populist politics, which led to the Fascist Party's establishment of a totalitarian state, with the party leader exhaulted as an almost divine figure. This text traces the upheavals in Italian politics & society of the times.
Author : Tim Armstrong
Publisher : Polity
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0745629830
This volume combines a clear overview for those with no prior knowledge or experience of modernism with a subtle argument that will appeal to higher level undergraduates and scholars.
Author : Paul Greenhalgh
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861894791
Ten new and important essays on design cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA; they range in subject matter from world fairs and everyday domestic objects to American West coast architecture and French and Italian furniture. With essays by Tim Benton, Gillian Naylor, Penny Sparke, Wendy Kaplan, Clive Wainwright, Martin Gaughan, Guy Julier, Mimi Wilms, Julian Holder and Paul Greenhalgh. "The object of this book is to diffuse myths. If modernism has, in the past, been both absurdly praised and absurdly damned, Modernism in Design seeks to lift it out of this cycle, and to demonstrate that the modern movement could offer neither Jerusalem nor Babylon ... In this, the book succeeds admirably."—Designer's Journal "While this collection of essays is aimed primarily at design historians and students of design history, hard-pressed practising designers and architects should make room for it on their bookshelves."—Design
Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190496029
A challenging reassessment of the received wisdom concerning the interaction of politics and religion in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Author : Chinghsin Wu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520299825
This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a “parallel modernism” that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895–1933) as a lens to understand this process, Chinghsin Wu explores how watercolor, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism emerged and developed in Japan in ways that paralleled similar trends in the west, but also rejected and diverged from them. In this first English-language book on Koga Harue, Wu provides close readings of virtually all of the artist’s major works and provides unprecedented access to the critical writing about modernism in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s through primary source documentation, including translations of period art criticism, artist statements, letters, and journals.
Author : Liesl Olson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199349789
Modernism and the Ordinary overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. Liesl Olson shows how modernist writers were preoccupied, instead, with the unselfconscious actions of everyday life, even in times of political crisis and war. Experiences like walking to work, eating a sandwich, or mending a dress were often resistant to shock, and these daily activities presented a counter-force to the aesthetic of heightened affect with which the period is often associated. With attentive and sensitive readings, Modernism and the Ordinary examines works by Joyce, Woolf, Stein, Stevens, Proust, Beckett, and Auden alongside the ideas of philosophers such as Henri Bergson and William James. In doing so, the book reveals the non-transformative power of the ordinary as one of modernism's most compelling attributes.