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Modernism and the Mediterranean - The Maeght Foundation (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,234
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Modernism and the Mediterranean - The Maeght Foundation (Hardcover, New Ed): Jan K. Birksted

Modernism and the Mediterranean - The Maeght Foundation (Hardcover, New Ed)

Jan K. Birksted

Series: Histories of Vision

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Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, Jose Luis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting, including Joan Miro's labyrinth, George Braque's pool, Tal-Coat's mosaic wall and Giacometti's terrace, Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time, and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation is a Modernist representation of Mediterranean culture, the author has developed an interpretation of architecture that accommodates not only the architect's handling of material or function, but shows as well how it can be the embodiment of a particular vision of space and time.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Histories of Vision
Release date: March 2004
First published: 2004
Authors: Jan K. Birksted
Dimensions: 246 x 189 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-0179-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Modernist design & Bauhaus
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LSN: 0-7546-0179-X
Barcode: 9780754601791

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