Architecture of the off-modern / Svetlana Boym.

Main entry:

Boym, Svetlana, 1959-2015.

Title & Author:

Architecture of the off-modern / Svetlana Boym.

Publication:

New York : Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.

Description:

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

FORuM Project ; 2nd v.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Architecture of adventure and the off-modern -- Tatlin's techne and revolutionary ruins -- Architecture of estrangement and the curve of freedom -- Architecture of suspension and project-poetics -- Installation-architecture and contemporary ruinophilia -- Notes -- Illustrations -- An off-modern manifesto.

Summary:

This is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third International of 1920. Boym traces the vicissitudes of Tatlin's Tower from its reception in the 1920s to its privileged recall in 'the reservoir of unofficial utopian dreams' of the Soviet-era.

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ISBN:

9781568987781 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1568987781 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Tatlin, Vladimir E. 1885-1953 Denkmal für die III. Internationale
Tatlin, Vladimir E. Denkmal für die III. Internationale.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Architecture and society.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture et société.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Geschichte
Gesellschaft
Philosophie
Revolution

Added entries:

Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.
Buell Center/FORuM Project publication ; 2. v.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257576
Call No.: BIB 188100
Status: External loan

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