Research Catalog

Title

Le Corbusier : lessons in modernism / edited by Giuliana Altea and Antonella Camarda.

Publication

• Zürich, Switzerland : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
• Altea, Giuliana
• Camarda, Antonella
• Museo Nivola (Orani, Italy), host institution

Description

183 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Le Corbusier saw himself as much a visual artist as an architect. Yet his work as an accomplished painter and sculptor has only recently begun to be fully understood and appreciated. Sardinian sculptor Costantino Nivola met Le Corbusier in 1946 in New York City. ?Corbu? was collaborating with Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer on the United Nations Headquarters, while Nivola had been living there in exile since 1939. Their encounter marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship. The architect would come to share the artist?s Greenwich Village studio while working on the United Nations Headquarters, and he also created two murals in the kitchen of Nivola?s East Hampton home in the 1950s. Over time, Nivola collected six paintings, six sculptures, and some three hundred drawings by his friend. Today, these paintings, sculptures, and drawings are held in various galleries and museums across Europe and the Americas. Le Corbusier: Lessons in Modernism tells the story for the first time of this remarkable collection, exploring its significance in the evolution of Le Corbusier?s visual art and its impact on the reception of his art in the United States.

Alternative Title

Lessons in modernism

Subject

• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 > Exhibitions
• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
• 1900-1999
• Drawing, French
• Art, Modern

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Le Corbusier, Lessons in Modernism, Museo Nivola, Orani, December 22, 2018 - March 17, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Giuliana Altea, Antonella Camarda -- Une petite collection nomade. Le Corbusier's "American" drawings / Giuliana Altea -- "Storm center of controversy." The reception of Le Corbusier's painting in the United States (1932-1965) / Antonella Camarda -- Le Corbusier, Nivola , and the "United Nations of America" / Richard Ingersoll -- Plates.

Call Number

JQF 21-120

ISBN

• 9783858818485
• 3858818488

OCLC

1135878671

Title

Le Corbusier : lessons in modernism / edited by Giuliana Altea and Antonella Camarda.

Publisher

Zürich, Switzerland : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Container of (work): Le Corbusier, 1887-1965. Drawings. Selections.

Altea, Giuliana, editor.

Camarda, Antonella, editor.

Museo Nivola (Orani, Italy), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-120