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Warped Space - Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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Warped Space - Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected
architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century.
Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late
nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after
World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental
condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media
and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism,
and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by
digitalization and virtual reality. Anthony Vidler is concerned
with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space,
is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty
but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and
the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break
the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler traces
the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and
Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in
the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial
alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel,
Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin. Focusing on current
conditions of displacement and placelessness, he examines ways in
which contemporary artists and architects have produced new forms
of spatial warping. The discussion ranges from theorists such as
Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists such as Vito Acconci,
Mike Kelley, Martha Rosler, and Rachel Whiteread. Finally, Vidler
looks at the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry, Coop
Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis, and Eric Owen
Moss in the light of new digital techniques that, while relying on
traditional perspective, have radically transformed the
composition, production, and experience-perhaps even the subject
itself-of architecture.
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