Treacherous transparencies : thoughts and observations triggered by a visit to the Farnsworth House / concept and text, Jacques Herzog ; photographs of the Farnsworth House, Pierre de Meuron.

Author
Herzog, Jacques [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chicago, Illinois : IITAC Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
95 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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    Summary note
    "This book analyzes transparency as expressed in architecture and art in an attempt to understand the intentions and objectives that underlie its use by pertinent architects and artists. The publication looks at a few important works by selected artists and architects who work with transparency as an artistic strategy, which they implement primarily by using glass and mirrors but other media as well. The architects and artists listed together in this context form an unlikely alliance: Bruno Taut, Ivan Leonidov, Marcel Duchamp, Mies van der Rohe, Dan Graham, and Gerhard Richter. But they do have something in common: their work marks salient way stations in the story of modernism up to the present day"--OCLC.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (page 94).
    Contents
    • Glass and mirrors
    • Architecture and art trace two distinct, indeed contradictory lines of development
    • Die Stadtkrone (1919) / Bruno Taut
    • Città del sole (1944) / Ivan Leonidov
    • Le grand verre (1914-1923) / Marcel Duchamp
    • Farnsworth House (1945-1951) / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
    • Alteration to a suburban house (1978) / Dan Graham
    • Acht grau (2002) / Gerhard Richter.
    ISBN
    • 1945150114
    • 9781945150111
    LCCN
    2016942636
    OCLC
    952207690
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