ART ARCH COMPLEX CL

by FOSTER,HAL

• ISBN13: 9781844676897
• ISBN10: 1844676897
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art has become a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron draw on art to reanimate design, architecture has inspired fundamental transformations in painting, sculpture and film, which are also explored here. The book includes an extensive conversation with Richard Serra. At the same time Foster points to a #xE2;#xAC;Sglobal style#xE2;#xAC; of architecture, as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, that is analogous to the #xE2;#xAC;Sinternational style#xE2;#xAC; of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;a global style that, more than any art, conveys the look of modernity today, both its dreams and its delusions. In these ways Foster demonstrates that #xE2;#xAC;Sthe art-architecture complex#xE2;#xAC; is a key indicator of broader social and economic trajectories, and in urgent need of analysis and debate.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Image-Building	p. 1
Global Styles
Pop Civics	p. 19
Crystal Palaces	p. 34
Light Modernity	p. 52
Architecture vis-à-vis Art
Neo-Avant-Garde Gestures	p. 71
Postmodernist Machines	p. 87
Minimalist Museums	p. 104
Mediums After Minimalism
Sculpture Remade	p. 133
Film Stripped Bare	p. 166
Painting Unbound	p. 182
Building Contra Image	p. 215
Endnotes	p. 245
Illustration Credits	p. 287
Index	p. 289
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