The ideal museum : practical art in metals and hard materials / Gottfried Semper ; [editor, Peter Noever].

Main entry:

Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879.

Title & Author:

The ideal museum : practical art in metals and hard materials / Gottfried Semper ; [editor, Peter Noever].

Publication:

Description:

281 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 35 cm

Series:

MAK studies ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281).

Summary:

The German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper was a founder of Modernism. Forced to leave Dresden in 1849, he composed this important manifesto on the phenomenology of materials and the systematization of the ideal museum while in exile. Published in transcription for the first time, with original line breaks, this volume includes all drawings and some manuscript pages in facsimile.

ISBN:

9783851600858 (cl.)
3851600851 (cl.)

Subject:

Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879.
Semper, Gottfried 1803-1879
Semper, Gottfried.
Art metal-work.
Metal-work History.
Museum exhibits.
Art and science.
Arts du métal.
Travail des métaux Histoire.
Objets exposés.
Art et sciences.
Metal-work.
Metallkunst

Form/genre:

Quelle.
History.

Added entries:

Noever, Peter, 1941-
MAK Studies ; 8.

Practical art in metals and hard materials

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252288
Call No.: BIB 181361
Status: Available

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