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The Built Surface, 2-volume set

By Christy Anderson, Karen Koehler Copyright 2002
    662 Pages
    by Routledge

    Since antiquity, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed a relationship between the arts; modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. Published in two volumes, The Built Surface offers a series of essays in which the authors reverse this trend and examine cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment. The exchanges between architecture and pictures explored by these authors are found to be in all cases significantly expressive of their respective social, political, and intellectual histories.

    Contents: Preface, Christy Anderson and Karen Koehler; List of illustrations; Introduction, Karen Koehler; Félix Duban, Early Photography and the Circulation of Images, Barry Bergdoll; ’Great Gaps and Voids’: John Singer Sargent’s Interior Abyss, Susan Sidlauskas; Architecture, Ornament and Pictorialism: Notes on the History of the Idea, Alina Payne; Henry van de Velde’s Bloemenwerf: English Books and Belgian Art Nouveau, Amy Ogata; Empathy and Abstraction at the Munich Artists’s Theatre, Juliet Koss; The Expressionist Sublime, Iain Boyd Whyte; Scratching the Membrane: Photography and Building in Early Twentieth Century Southern Nigeria, Ikem Stanley Okoye; From Werkbund to Entartung: Willi Baumeister’s ’Wall Pictures’ Peter Chametzky; From Monument to Muralnomad: The Mural in Modern European Architecture, Romy Golan; Le Corbusier’s ’Synthesis of the Major Arts’ in the Context of the French Reconstruction, Christopher Pearson; Skyscraper Vision in Early Science Fiction, Haim Finkelstein; Berenice Abbott’s ’Changing New York’ and Urban Planning Debates, Peter Barr; ’Picturesque’ Urban Pastoral in Post-War New York City, Terrence Diggory; Constructed Grounds: New Strategies in Contemporary European Architecture, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Index.
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