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Bettina Pousttchi : metropolitan life

Title
Bettina Pousttchi : metropolitan life / a cura di Giuliana Altea, Antonella Camarda.
Publication
  • Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Altea, Giuliana
  • Camarda, Antonella
  • Museo Nivola (Orani, Italy), host institution.
Description
103 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm
Summary
Since the late 2000s, German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi has been creating works at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and photography. Her large-scale installations investigate the history and memory of places, exploring the connections between time and space from a transnational perspective, and have gained her international recognition and praise. This book features Pousttchi's new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 - and the world's tallest structure until 1913 - the building displays a hybrid identity, recalling cultural and temporal-spatial dislocations between the Old and the New World, Renaissance and Modernism. Exhibition: Museo Nivola, Orani, Sardinia, Italy (29.09.2017 - 14.01.2018).
Uniform Title
  • Bettina Pousttchi.
  • Bettina Pousttchi. English.
Alternative Title
Metropolitan life
Subjects
Note
  • On the occasion of the exhibition "Bettina Pousttchi: metropolitan life" held at Museo Nivola, Orani, September 29, 2017 - January 14, 2018.
Language (note)
  • In Italian and English.
ISBN
  • 9783858818263
  • 3858818267
LCCN
9783858818263
OCLC
  • on1101118350
  • SCSB-9418993
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library