Horror in architecture / Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing.

Main entry:

Comaroff, Joshua, author.

Title & Author:

Horror in architecture / Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing.

Publication:

Description:

225 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Sublime horror -- Deviance anatomy -- Horror in architecture -- Redemption of horror -- Typologies of horror. Doubles & clones -- Exquisite corpse & ungrammatical body -- Partially and mostly dead -- Reiteration and reflexivity -- Incontinent object -- Trojan horse -- Homunculism & gigantism -- Solidity & stereotomy -- Distortion and disproportion.

Summary:

Through an investigation that spans architecture art, and literature, this study attempts to limn horror through its shifting forms and meanings--and to identify a creeping unease that lingers at the very center of the modern project.

ISBN:

9781935935902
1935935909

Subject:

Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Schrecken
Architektur
Ästhetik
Seltsamkeit

Added entries:

Ong, Ker-Shing, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 284249
Call No.: BIB 222955
Status: Available

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