Research Catalog

Title

The world of Madelon Vriesendorp : paintings, postcards, objects, games / edited by Shumon Basar and Stephan Trüby.

Publication

London : AA Publications, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Architectural Association (Great Britain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089971
• Basar, Shumon.
• Trüby, Stephan.
• Vriesendorp, Madelon.

Description

277 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Vriesendorp, Madelon > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Architectural Association, London, Jan. 11-Feb. 8, 2008.

Contents

Home ; A secret world, a grand tour / Charlie Koolhaas -- The misappropriations of Madelon Vriesendorp : a foreword to her world / Brett Steele -- The productivity of distraction / Fenna Haakma Wagenaar -- Madelon seeing through objects / Charles Jencks -- The scientist of the non-serious : a biography : Beatriz Colomina interviews Madelon Vriesendorp, part I -- Disaster follows ectasy like form follows function : Beatriz Colomina interviews Madelon Vriesendorp, part II -- Are bad paintings ever the best? / Shumon Basar -- Nano questions and nano answers / Zaha Hadid, Zoe Zenghelis, Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Disasters, babies, glass bricks : postcard archaeology / Shumon Basar and Charlie Koolhaas -- Works 1967-2007 -- Critical pursuit, Mind game, Home analysis kit / Madelon Vriesendorp -- Life with very selected objects : Beatriz Colomina interviews Madelon Vriesendorp, part III -- The Hapstead connection / Hubert Damisch -- Souvenir decorum : Madelon Vriesendorp's inverted architectural rankings / Stephan Trüby -- Oh my God, you're me! : Douglas Coupland and Madelon Vriesendorp in conversation -- Worrying kindness and ultimate wisdom : on the art of generosity : Rem Koolhaas in conversation with Shumon Basar and Stephan Trüby.

ISBN

• 9781902902630
• 1902902637

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library