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This new book is an edited volume of essays that examine the legacy
of architecture in a number of African countries soon after
independence. It has its origins in an exhibition and symposium
that focused on architecture as an element in Nordic countries' aid
packages to newly independent states, but the expanded breadth of
the essays includes work on other countries and architects. Drawing
on ethnography, archival research and careful observations of
buildings, remains and people, the case studies seek to connect the
colonial and postcolonial origins of modernist architecture, the
historical processes they underwent, and present use and
habitation. It results from the 2015 seminar and exhibition Forms
of Freedom at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition showed how modern Scandinavian
architecture became an essential component of foreign aid to East
Africa in the period 1960-80, and how the ideals of the Nordic
welfare system found expression in a number of construction
projects. The seminar, which built upon the exhibition as well as
on a previous collaboration on the legacies of modernism in Africa
between the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oslo
and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning from Ghent
University, broadened the geographic scope of the discussion beyond
the Scandinavian context, and set the ground for bringing together
the disciplines of architectural history and social anthropology.
Primary readership will be among architects and architectural
historians, and graduate level architecture and urban studies
students, for whom it will be valuable course material, as well as
those in fields such as African studies and anthropology. It may
also be of interest to those working or researching in public
policy and political history.
Seen as a step toward addressing this gap, this catalogue seeks to
position Mohidin within Berlin art circles of the 1960s, and
unravel what could be contingently described as painting from
within the tradition. The catalogue also explores the formative
role of Mohidin's Pago Pago series not only in his oeuvre, but also
in our very ability to write about Southeast Asian history.
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of
New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered
the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic.
But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the
surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar
art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the
museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright
established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the
project. Over the next 17 years, Wright continuously clashed with
his clients over the cost and the design, a conflict that extended
to the city of New York and its cultural establishment. Against all
odds, Wright held fast to his radical design concept of an inverted
ziggurat and spiraling ramp, built with a continuous beam-a shape
recalling the form of an hourglass. Construction was only completed
in 1959, six months after Wright's death. The building's initial
critical response ultimately gave way to near-universal admiration,
as it came to be seen as an architectural masterpiece. This
essential text, offering a behind-the-scenes story of the
Guggenheim along with a careful reading of its architecture, is
beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, including plans,
drawings, and rare photographs of the building under construction.
Insane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations
and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain.
In a series of case studies on subjects ranging from the first
Postimpressionist exhibition in London in 1910, the teaching of
modernist art in schools, the decoration and design of the
modernist home, the International Surrealist exhibition in London
in 1936 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, Insane Acquaintances
charts some of the ways in which modernism not only sought to
improve the quality of art but also the quality of art's reception
in Britain. It also provides an institutional history of some of
the groups and organisations that fostered modernist art in Britain
during that period.
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Detroit Opera House
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michael Hauser, Marianne Weldon; Introduction by Lisa Dichiera
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We, the House
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Warren Ashworth, Susan Kander
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In 1999, Akseli Gallen-Kallela's Lake Keitele (1905) became the
first Finnish painting to enter the National Gallery and is now one
of the most popular pictures in the collection. Although the artist
and his work are relatively unknown to audiences outside of
Finland, he was not only a leading figure in modern Finnish
painting but an accomplished practitioner of the decorative arts
and a key figure in the development of early twentieth-century
Modernism. This book focuses on four versions of his shimmering
depictions of Lake Keitele, north of Helsinki; a stylized lake
composition which first appeared in the early 1880s, when the
artist was still elaborating his own descriptive language, and
continued to preoccupy him until well into the 1920s. Anne Robbins
examines these abstract and modernist pictures in the light of the
international avant gardes with which Gallen-Kallela was in contact
for much of his career, and the ways in which his work expressed
his fervent Finnish nationalism. Published by National Gallery
Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:
National Gallery, London (11/15/17-02/04/18)
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