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The writings of graphic designer, prolific critic, and avant-garde partisan Karel Teige (1900-1951) represent one of the great forgotten legacies of modern artistic theory. Together with Jaromír Krejcar and Josef Chocol, he founded the radical Devetsil group in 1920, an(...)
Modern architecture in Czechoslovakia and other writings
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The writings of graphic designer, prolific critic, and avant-garde partisan Karel Teige (1900-1951) represent one of the great forgotten legacies of modern artistic theory. Together with Jaromír Krejcar and Josef Chocol, he founded the radical Devetsil group in 1920, an organization committed to promoting international modernism through manifestos and polemics. After meeting Le Corbusier in Paris in 1922, Teige increasingly turned his attention to architecture. Over the next decade he crystallized his ideas on functionalist and constructivist practice through relationships with ideological allies including Adolf Behne, Theo van Doesburg, Hannes Meyer, and El Lissitzky. In "Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia" (published in 1930), Teige both publicized the modernist efforts of his native country, and aligned them with the avant-garde efforts of the East and West. Now in English for the first time, this work is supplemented by a selection of Teige's other writings on art and architecture. An introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen traces the diverse pursuits of this multifaceted figure.
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From the time of its invention, photography has enabled artists not only to capture the world around them but also to create worlds of their own. "Utopia/Dystopia" investigates how artists from the late 19th century to the present have used photographic fragments or techniques to represent political, social, or cultural states of utopia or dystopia. Artists have employed(...)
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Utopia dystopia : construction and destruction in photography and collage
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From the time of its invention, photography has enabled artists not only to capture the world around them but also to create worlds of their own. "Utopia/Dystopia" investigates how artists from the late 19th century to the present have used photographic fragments or techniques to represent political, social, or cultural states of utopia or dystopia. Artists have employed a number of strategies to this end, such as cutting, fragmenting, and puncturing images as well as reassembling those culled from ready-made materials or giving a subject multiple exposures. The resulting photographs, photocollages, photomontages, and other creations question the validity of seamless pictorial images, and attempt to dismantle the notion of photography as an objective medium. This publication features approximately forty-five exemplary works by artists such as Herbert Bayer, John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Arata Isozaki, El Lissitzky, Carter Mull, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Vik Muniz, Man Ray, Okanoue Toshiko, and many others.
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The Anatomy of the Architectural Book examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Using five conceptual tools—texture, surface, rhythm, structure, and scale—Tavares analyzes the material qualities of a wide range of books in order to(...)
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The anatomy of the architectural book
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The Anatomy of the Architectural Book examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Using five conceptual tools—texture, surface, rhythm, structure, and scale—Tavares analyzes the material qualities of a wide range of books in order to assess these dynamics and intersections. This investigation confronts us with the rise of the industrialized book, and thus of the editor as an important intermediary between the author and the printer, as well as with the configuration of the book as a unique visual device (with the designer taking part in a progressively more complex chain of decision-making). Richly illustrated with samples from the CCA library, the volume discusses work by authors including William Morris, Gottfried Semper, El Lissitzky, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. A large portion of the research for the book was undertaken while Tavares was a Visiting Scholar at the CCA. It is co-published in English by Lars Müller Publishers and in Portuguese by Dafne Editora.
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ABZ présente, en couleurs, une multitude d’alphabets complets, une myriade d’emblèmes et de logos, de pages élégantes et d’exemples étonnants de l’avant-garde graphique du début du XXe siècle. Issus de collections, privées pour la plupart, disséminées à travers le monde, de Londres à Mexico en passant par Prague, Amsterdam et New York, la plupart de ces splendides(...)
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ABZ : alphabets, graphismes, typos et autres signes
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ABZ présente, en couleurs, une multitude d’alphabets complets, une myriade d’emblèmes et de logos, de pages élégantes et d’exemples étonnants de l’avant-garde graphique du début du XXe siècle. Issus de collections, privées pour la plupart, disséminées à travers le monde, de Londres à Mexico en passant par Prague, Amsterdam et New York, la plupart de ces splendides documents sont reproduits ici pour la première fois. Dans ce voyage au pays des lettres et des signes, on pourra rencontrer l’alphabet photo-poétique de Karel Teige, l’un des leaders de l’avant-garde de l’entre-deux-guerres ; les pages émouvantes issues d’un manuel espagnol pour les soldats analphabètes ; les typographies avant-gardistes de Lajos Kassak ; les caractères créés par Snellen pour les tableaux des opticiens, et l’impertinence élégante de journaux français, allemands, italiens et tchèques. On pourra aussi croiser les designers les plus célèbres, tels El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Ladislav Sutnar et A.M. Cassandre. Les textes d’accompagnement apprennent au lecteur l’histoire de chaque alphabet, l’usage pour lequel il a été créé, le succès qu’il a connu par la suite. Un merveilleux texte de Georges Pérec intitulé « L’alphabet » introduit le lecteur dans le monde magique des lettres .
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C'est la République de Weimar au cours des années 1918 à 1933 qui propulsa Berlin au zénith. Ainsi, le Berlin des années vingt a donné naissance à une culture qui a totalement vécu de la politisation. Il y germait des utopies qui, en cette époque de crise, traçaient des perspectives de progrès. La communication prenait son essor dans les sphères populaires par le biais(...)
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Berlin, les années vingt: art et culture 1918-1933
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C'est la République de Weimar au cours des années 1918 à 1933 qui propulsa Berlin au zénith. Ainsi, le Berlin des années vingt a donné naissance à une culture qui a totalement vécu de la politisation. Il y germait des utopies qui, en cette époque de crise, traçaient des perspectives de progrès. La communication prenait son essor dans les sphères populaires par le biais de la photo, du cinéma, des affiches, de l'agit-prop, du cabaret et des variétés. Grâce à ces techniques, ces millions de Berlinois ne formaient plus une masse mais des citoyens : ils acquéraient à la fois un accès et une dignité à la culture. Ces évolutions venaient de la masse, mais il y avait une avant-garde pour les faire entrer dans les pratiques et les prémices des beaux-arts. Il suffit d'aligner quelques noms, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch pour l'aventure Dada ; Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch pour le cinéma et la photographie ; Mies van der Rohe, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky pour les grandes conquêtes utopistes ou fonctionnelles de l'architecture, du design et de l'oeuvre d'art totale, pour prendre la mesure de ces années de révolutions et de créations tous azimuts.
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"The anatomy of the architectural book" examines approaches to structuring, constructing and designing architectural books and traces how they have changed over time. The discipline has been exposed to debates, just as building construction has been exposed to the charms of book making. Examining the crossovers between book culture and building culture makes the axes(...)
The anatomy of the architectural book, 2nd edition
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"The anatomy of the architectural book" examines approaches to structuring, constructing and designing architectural books and traces how they have changed over time. The discipline has been exposed to debates, just as building construction has been exposed to the charms of book making. Examining the crossovers between book culture and building culture makes the axes visible along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back – from the celebration of specific architectural practices to the production of unique books, using pages and print to convey architectural ideas. Dissecting a wealth of books through five conceptual tools – texture, surface, rhythm, structure and scale – André Tavares analyzes the material qualities of books in order to assess their crossovers with architectural knowledge. The detailed history of Sigfried Giedion’s Befreites Wohnen and the two incarnations of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park and Sydenham provide a background that confront us not only with the rise of the industrialized book but also with the configuration of the book as a unique visual device. Richly illustrated with samples from the library of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the volume discusses a wide range of authors, including Vitruvius, William Morris, Gottfried Semper, El Lissitzky and Le Corbusier.
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Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis Cohen traces the concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in(...)
Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
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Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis Cohen traces the concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the nineteenth century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the twentieth century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, when the Cold War induced a strategic competition. Tracing the many journeys of Russian writers, politicians, and planners through the American territory, foregrounding the constant streams of cultural and technological transfer from the U.S.A. to Russia, and revealing the parallel fascination among Russian and American intellectuals with the ongoing pursuit of land occupation and development within their respective borders, this study of Amerikanizm in the architecture and urban design of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.
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During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. ''Architecture of life'' delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of their radical approach and(...)
Architecture of life: Soviet modernism and the human sciences
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During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. ''Architecture of life'' delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of their radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements that were developing concurrently across the globe. Examining the theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, as well as those of their lesser-known colleagues, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences. Envisioning the built environment as innately connected to social evolution, their methods incorporated aspects of psychoanalysis, personality theory, and studies in spatial perception, all of which were integrated into an ideology that grounded functional design firmly within the attributes of the individual. A comprehensive overview of the ideals that permeated its expanded project, ''Architecture of life'' explicates the underlying impulses that motivated Soviet modernism, highlighting the deep interconnections among the ways in which it viewed all aspects of life, both natural and manufactured.
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Photography at MoMA / edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson Meister.
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Les représentations idéales de l’Amérique, à la fois comme horizon prometteur et comme menace, ont joué un rôle déterminant dans la formation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme russes de la Révolution américaine à la dissolution de l’Union soviétique. Jean-Louis Cohen retrace l’origine du concept d’"amerikanizm" et son impact sur l’environnement bâti de la Russie de(...)
Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde : L’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe
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Les représentations idéales de l’Amérique, à la fois comme horizon prometteur et comme menace, ont joué un rôle déterminant dans la formation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme russes de la Révolution américaine à la dissolution de l’Union soviétique. Jean-Louis Cohen retrace l’origine du concept d’"amerikanizm" et son impact sur l’environnement bâti de la Russie de l’intérêt précoce de l’intelligentsia pour l’Amérique révolutionnaire et la découverte des expositions universelles du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux grands magasins, aux gratte-ciel et aux usines construits en Russie selon les méthodes américaines au cours du XXe siècle. Les images de l’Amérique ont également captivé l’avant-garde russe, d’El Lissitzky à Moïsseï Guinzbourg, et Cohen explore la relation spéculaire entretenue entre les deux pays au milieu du siècle dernier et à la fin de l’ère soviétique, dans une concurrence stratégique aiguisée par la Guerre Froide. Dans cette première grande étude de l’américanisme dans l’architecture russe, la trame tissée par Jean-Louis Cohen entrecroise les trajectoires d’écrivains, d’hommes politiques et d’urbanistes russes à travers le sol américain, met en avant le flux constant de transferts culturels et technologiques des États-Unis vers la Russie, et révèle la fascination parallèle des intellectuels russes et américains face à la poursuite inexorable de l’occupation et l’exploitation du territoire au sein de leurs frontières respectives. Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde : L’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe apporte une contribution opportune à notre compréhension de la géopolitique des édifices et des formes urbaines.
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décembre 2019
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