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Fundacion Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote (Opus 16) (German, Spanish, Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)
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Fundacion Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote (Opus 16) (German, Spanish, Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)
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Text in English, German and Spanish. Over the last decade the
island of Lanzarote has become one of the favourite tourism
destinations in the Canary Islands. However, our interest is more
one of artistic than of touristic discovery, and this would be
virtually unthinkable without the work of an artist who fell in
love with this wonderful paradise. We refer to Cesar Manrique
(1919-1992), who was able to see and reveal to us the unique
beauties arising out of the happy marriage of the four elements
believed by the Greeks to form the whole of creation: air, earth,
fire and water. In fact, after returning to his island in 1968
after a period spent in New York, Manrique dedicated himself
passionately to realising his utopia, to renew Lanzarote out of his
own sources. Among Manrique's best known works on Lanzarote are the
Casa Museo del Campesino, the Jameos del Agua, the Mirador del Rio,
the Cactus Garden and his own house in the Taro de Tahiche.
Manrique's house in Taro de Tahiche, which nowadays houses the
Cesar Manrique Foundation, can be considered as a 'work in
progress' as it was built over a period of almost 25 years and was
still not completed upon the artist's death. Arising out of the
five interconnected volcanic bubbles of the underground storey, it
has become a metaphor for the amorous meeting of man with Mother
Earth, the latter being understood, to use Bruno Taut's expression,
as 'a fine home for living'. The spaces on the upper floor can be
virtually mistaken for the white cubic buildings dispersed
throughout the island. But when we cross their thresholds, we have
the unique feeling that here something was created which is really
new. In fact, Manrique -- enemy in equal measure of the 'pastiche'
of regionalism and the off-key International Style blind to
differentiation -- sifted the vernacular with certain modern
filters such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe or Le
Corbusier, and at the same time he gave it such a specific stamp
that the final result became indigenous and unmistakable. Simon
Marchan Fiz is professor of aesthetics in Madrid. Like Marchan Fiz,
Pedro Martinez de Albornoz lives in Madrid. The photographs shown
in this book are the best photographic interpretation of one of
Manrique's work up to now.
General
Imprint: |
Edition Axel Menges
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Series: |
OPUS |
Release date: |
December 1997 |
First published: |
June 1996 |
Authors: |
Cesar Manrique
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Dimensions: |
314 x 284 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
60 |
Edition: |
4th Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-930698-16-5 |
Languages: |
German
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Spanish
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Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
3-930698-16-1 |
Barcode: |
9783930698165 |
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