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Part-Architecture - The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,933
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Part-Architecture - The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris (Hardcover): Emma Cheatle

Part-Architecture - The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris (Hardcover)

Emma Cheatle

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Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre, makes original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s Paris, and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass. Through a rich analysis, which incorporates creative projects into history and theory research, the book establishes new ways of writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife, Annie Dalsace, the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a gynaecology clinic into a 'free-plan' layout. Screened only by glass walls, the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de Verre through another radical glass construction, the Large Glass, where Duchamp's complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a register of the changing history of women's domestic and maternal choices, reclaiming the building as a piece of female social architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the accounts in the book is termed 'part-architecture'. Derived from psychoanalytic theory, part-architecture fuses analytical, descriptive and creative processes, to produce a unique social and architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to the Large Glass, the book has three main chapters: 'Glass', 'Dust' and 'Air'. Combining theory text, creative writing and drawing, each traces the history and meaning of the material and its contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the Maison de Verre. As a whole, the book contributes important and unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands definitions of architectural design and history.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2016
Authors: Emma Cheatle
Dimensions: 246 x 174 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-7169-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
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LSN: 1-4724-7169-5
Barcode: 9781472471697

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