Building-Art: Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction (Contemporary Artists and their Critics) - Hardcover

Masheck, Joseph

 
9780521440134: Building-Art: Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521440130 ISBN 13: 9780521440134
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by such great modernists as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn, Masheck also analyzes important monuments and architectural ideas of such artists as Giorgio di Chirico and Tony Smith. Contextualizing and culturally speculative, these studies address such issues as the distinction between architecture and "mere" building, and architecture and engineering, frequently drawing the reader into architectural problems that have persisted for at least two centuries. 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 light of Postmodernism's demise. Joseph Masheck, editor-in-chief of Artforum from 1977-1980, is Associate Professor of Art History and coordinator of the graduate humanities program at Hofstra University. He is the author of several books and many articles.

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Book Description

Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, this anthology of essays considers topics in 19th and 20th century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Louis Kahn.

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This book is a collection of essays by art critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth-and twentieth-century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by great modernists-Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Louis I. Kahn-Masheck also analyzes the ideas and artworks of such artists as Giorgio de Chirico and Tony Smith.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521440130
ISBN 13 
9780521440134
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
318

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