Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn

Eugene J. Johnson, Michael J. Lewis, with Ralph Lieberman

ISBN 10: 0913697206 / ISBN 13: 9780913697207

Published by Williams College Museum of Art and the M.I.T. Press, Williamstown, MA/Cambridge, MA, 1996

About this Item

soft cover, as issued., some creasing to cover, minor sunning to spine and back cover. soft bump to part of one corner. no other flaws. clean. no text or exterior markings. strong sewn binding.; this copy is inscribed and signed by author's johnson and lewis on the title page with a small architectural detail drawn by lewis.; viii-136pp., 10 color plates and 105 b/w illustrations.three essays. catalogue. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn
• Publisher: Williams College Museum of Art and the M.I.T. Press, Williamstown, MA/Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913697206
• ISBN 13: 9780913697207
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed By Authors
• Book Type: Exhibition Catalogue
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

These sketches document three visits to the Mediterranean--in 1928-29, 1950-51, and 1959--which were instrumental in shaping the ideas of Louis Kahn, America's greatest postwar architect. They include Kahn's early drawings of the Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano, whose towers would later appear in his Brutalist buildings; and his later more interpretive and emotion-charged sketches of the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. This catalogue accompanies a December 1996 exhibition of Kahn's drawings with the same title at the Jewish Museum in New York, organized by the authors, who teach art history at Williams College.