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Hundertwasser (Hardcover)
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Hundertwasser (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Art Series
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You Save R89 (22%)
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Vivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were
just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). A non-conformist hero, the
artist, architect, and activist left a blazing trail of imagination
and ideas in buildings, paintings, manifestos, initiatives, and
more. Hundertwasser's best-known work is considered by many to be
the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, a structural synthesis of the
vitality and uniqueness that determined the artist's entire oeuvre.
For Hundertwasser, rational, sterile, monotonous buildings caused
human misery. He called for a boycott of the modernist paradigm
championed by the likes of Adolf Loos, and campaigned instead for
an architecture of creative freedom and ecological commitment. A
fierce opponent of straight lines, which he called "godless and
immoral," Hundertwasser was fascinated by the spiral, drawing also
on the Secessionist forms of Klimt and Schiele. This richly
illustrated book traces Hundertwasser's style and vision not only
for each building, but for society at large. From naked addresses
at the end of the 1960s to worldwide architecture projects and
alternative blueprints for society, author Pierre Restany explores
Hundertwasser's most high-profile and innovative ideas in a
thrilling introduction to a pioneering 20th-century mind. About the
series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological
summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her
cultural and historical importance a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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