Modern Classicism / Tom Killian.

Main entry:

Killian, Tom, author.

Title & Author:

Modern Classicism / Tom Killian.

Publication:

North Carolina : Lulu, 2019.

Description:

236 pages : color illustrations, 28 cm

Notes:
"A personal study of Qlasscism's place in 20th century architecture including Post-Modern classicism for which wisdom lies in recognizing the primacy of the already built, deconstructivism's in upstaging it."--Author's note from t.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

"Classicism's prehistory begins in the Middle East in the 4th Millennium; from this point developing - via oral resurgences - in Egypt, Crete, Greece, Rome and Europe where it dominates - if challenged by the Picturesque - until the middle of the 19th century, when it slides into becoming a costume from when a new way, called Modernism, emerges; the two competing over the next century in a sort of peace, based on the failure of the tabula rasa and on discovering the vitality of the city as a beneficent chaos. There follows a sort of free-for-all, the weak and the strong embraced in a sort of dance. Buried in d in this overview are passions of great intensity: Leonardo's "Vitruvian man", Bugs Bunny and Duchamp's "bottle-rack". Enough h time has elapsed to review this development, to understand this long tradition, to see how this tradition re-emerges as Modernism within Post-Modern Classicism at the end of the 20th century. Enough time has elapsed to review this development, to understand this long tradition, to see how this tradition re-emerges as Modernism within Post-Modern Classicism at the end of the 20th century. In the 21st century, all bets off!"--Provided by publisher

ISBN:

9780359326082
0359326080

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Classicism in architecture History 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Classicisme en architecture Histoire 20e siècle.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 323340
Call No.: 323340
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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