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Building-art : modern architecture under cultural construction
- Title
- Building-art : modern architecture under cultural construction / Joseph Masheck.
- Author
- Masheck, Joseph.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NA642 .M25 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 298 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary artists and their critics
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary artists and their critics.
- Subject
- Note
- Anthology of essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-290) and index.
- Contents
- Bentham's Panopticon : an architectural perpetration -- Politics of style : Dublin Pro-Cathedral in the Greek Revival -- An American utopian schoolhouse design -- Note on Sullivan and the rarefaction of bodily beauty -- De Chirico's pathos of lost antiquity -- Textual life of the living machine -- Reflections in onyx on Mies van der Rohe -- Post tenebras lux : speculations on Ronchamp -- Kahn : the anxious classicist -- Crystalline form, Worringer, and the minimalism of Tony Smith -- Form behind concept : the Bechers' imaging of industrial architecture -- Classical sass : notes on soft postmodernism -- Tired tropes : cathedral versus bicycle shed : "duck" versus "decorated shed."
- ISBN
- 0521440130
- 9780521440134
- 0521447852
- 9780521447850
- LCCN
- 92039223
- OCLC
- ocm26932924
- 26932924
- SCSB-1986302
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library