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Androgynos : das Mann-Weibliche in Kunst und Architektur = the male-female in art and architecture

Title
Androgynos : das Mann-Weibliche in Kunst und Architektur = the male-female in art and architecture / Günther Feuerstein ; [Mitarbeiterinnen des Autors, Johanna Krenn, Elke Wikidal ; englische Übersetzung, Michael Robinson].
Author
Feuerstein, Günther.
Publication
Stuttgart : A. Menges, ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Krenn, Johanna.
  • Wikidal, Elke.
Description
239 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
"If we grant architecture the ability to form metaphors, to make statements about human existence, to go beyond fulfilling everyday needs, then here too the question of sexuality must become visible. We know the theory that something upright is phallic-male and that rooms, caves and domes represent the uterine-female. But this book goes a - doubtlessly speculative - step further. It makes a mental leap to recognize something specifically androgynous in architecture: the "tower on the dome" as a symbol of union, of penetration, of conjunction (which is love and aggression at the same time), the "house within the house" as a symbol of a being within a being etc."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
Male female in art and architecture
Subject
  • Androgyny (Psychology)
  • Androgyny (Psychology) > Religious aspects
  • Androgyny (Psychology) in art
  • Architecture
  • Androgynie
  • Androgynie > Aspect religieux
  • Androgynie dans l'art
  • architecture (discipline)
  • Androgyny (Psychology) > Religious aspects
  • Architecture
  • Androgyny (Psychology) in art
  • Typologie
  • Androgynie Psychologie, Motiv
  • Kunst
  • Architektur
  • Architekturtheorie
  • Geschichte
  • Androgynie Psychologie
  • Kunst
  • Art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in German and English.
Contents
1. Concepts Employed -- 2. Unity -- Division -- Unification -- 3. Non-Christian Myths -- Religions -- Philosophies -- 4. Christianity. Judaism -- 5. Reversibility. Change of Sex -- 6. Androgyny in Modern Art -- 7. Sexual Symbolism in Architecture -- 8. Together -- 9. Androgynous Architecture -- 10. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 3930698749
  • 9783930698745
LCCN
98140382
OCLC
  • ocm38078578
  • 38078578
  • SCSB-102863
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library