|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
The Elusive Modernist revisits the history of the Modern movement
through the legacy of one of its protagonists, Gabriel Guevrekian
(c. 1900-1970). Born in Istanbul, Guevrekian grew up in Tehran and
then moved to Vienna to study architecture at the
Kunstgewerbeschule; he later worked with Oskar Strnad, Josef
Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, Henri Sauvage, and Robert Mallet-Stevens and
among his famous designs are the Cubist garden for Villa Noailles
in France and two houses for the Vienna Werkbund exhibition. Not
yet 30, Guevrekian was recognized as one of the protagonists of the
European Avant-garde in Paris. During the 1930s, he spent a few
years in Iran to design public buildings and later, after the
Second World War, he took teaching responsibilities in Europe and
America. All his various pursuits, and the homes and nationalities
he held in Asia, Europe and then America, led to a serial adoption
of personae. He made every discipline meaningful, every city
central, every period epochal simply by his own very tangible
engagement with it.
In her work, Nazgol Ansarinia examines the systems and networks
that underpin her daily life, such as everyday objects, routines,
events, and experiences, and the relationship they form to a larger
social context. This new monograph surveys the artist's work of the
last fifteen years in sculptures, installation, drawing, and video.
The individual projects represent ways of understanding the role of
architecture in delineating interior end exterior spaces and
private and public spheres. Ansarinia's works are largely
observational and technical in their scope, offering insight into
the issues that are most pressing and urgent for today's cities and
the populations that inhabit them. This fully illustrated
publication features in-depth essays by Media Farzin, Hamed
Khosravi, and Maria Lind.
|
You may like...
Not available
|