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9780892365968

Modern Architecture in Czechoslavia and Other Writings

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  • ISBN13:

    9780892365968

  • ISBN10:

    089236596X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-11-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Teige's principal work on modernism, now in English for the first time, is supplemented by a selection of his other writings on art and architecture.

Author Biography


Jean-Louis Cohen is director of the Institut Francaise d'Architecture, Paris, professor at the Universite de Paris-VIII, and Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Irena Murray is head of the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art at McGill University, Montreal. David Britt has translated numerous books, including The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity by Aby Warburg.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
A Note on the Translation xi
Introduction 1(58)
Jean-Louis Cohen
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia
The End of the Century
59(32)
A New Century -- A New Architecture
91(6)
Jan Kotera and His Times
97(18)
Adolf Loos
115(26)
Cubism
141(18)
The Advent of Constructivism
159(128)
Toward a Theory of Constructivism
287(14)
Epilogue
301(2)
Postscript
303(6)
Three Essays
Toward a New Architecture
309(8)
Ten Years of the Bauhaus
317(14)
Constructivism and the Liquidation of ``Art''
331(10)
Translator's Notes 341(1)
Illustration Credits 342(1)
Selected Bibliography 343(8)
Index 351

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