| Description |
784 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Architecture, kaleidoscope of the arts / Germano Celant -- Art space/art of space : twentieth-century exhibition pavilions / Marco Mulazzani -- Struggle for public attention/public struggle / Elisabetta Bresciani -- Art and architecture in futurism / Giovanni Lista -- In the realm of the senses : architecture, cinema and haptic vision / Giuliana Bruno -- The architectonic afterlives of Giorgio de Chirico / Ara H. Merjian -- Art + architecture : the De Stijl chromoplastic synthesis / Sergio Polano -- Photography and architecture / Melissa Harris -- The last dream of the total work of art : art and architecture in Germany in Weimar / Marco De Michelis -- On architecture and literature : the stateless past and the Somnambulist future / Aldo De Poli -- Four-dimensional art and Maisons Passionnantes : the crisis in the premises of modernism through situationism and the close of the informal movement / Anna Costantini -- The photographic image and the architecture of modernity / Cesare de Seta -- The myth of reality : notes on neorealism in Italy 1946-56 / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani -- Futurist architecture : manifesto / Umberto Boccioni -- Futurist reconstruction of the universe / Giacoma Balla and Fortunato Depero -- Advertising and colored architecture / Fortunato Depero -- Manifesto of dynamic architecture, mood, and dramatics / Virgilio Marchi -- Futurism / Ivo Pannaggi -- The "atmospherestructure" foundations for a futurist architecture / Enrico Prampolini -- Futurist architecture / Enrico Prampolini -- Futurist architecture : manifesto / Antonio Sant'Elia -- Alberto Sartoris -- Suprematism - architecture / Kasimir Malevich -- Futurism and the art of proletariat / Nathan Al'tman -- Ilya Chashnik -- Birth, study and development of constructivism / Yakov Chernikhov -- Fundamental principles of constructivism / Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner -- Picture architecture / Lajos Kassak -- The laboratory of the revolution / Gustav Klucis -- The palette of the architect / Ivan I. Leonidov -- Proun / El Lissitzky -- Photography (fotopis') / El Lissitzky -- Suprematist Manifesto Unovis / Kasimir Malevich -- Architecture as a slap in the face of reinforced concrete / Kasimir Malevich -- Work plan of the council / Kasimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Vera Yermolaeva and Nina Kogan -- Affirmation / Pavel Mansurov -- Konstantin Mel'nikov -- Notes on composition / Alexander Rodchenko -- Slogans : discipline : construction / Alexander Rodchenko -- Conclusions on concepts of construction and composition / Alexander Rodchenko -- The constructivists address the world / Konstantin Medunetskii, Vladimir Stenberg and Georgi Stenberg -- Plan of work of the section of suprematist architecture of the department of material culture for 1926/27 / Nikolai Suetin -- Art out into technology / Vladimir Tatlin -- Victor Vesnin -- The creation of neoplasticism in the distant future and in today's architecture (architecture conceived as our total [non natural] environment) / Piet Mondrian -- In relation to plastic architecture / Theo van Doesburg -- Is the synthesis of the major arts possible? : a vital issue of modern architecture, open letter to the general assembly of Groupe Espace / Jean Gorin -- Neoplastic architecture of the future / Piet Mondrian -- Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud -- Gerrit Rietveld -- On painting and building / Bart van der Leck -- Towards a collective construction / Theo van Doesburg -- - [actual symbol not reproducible] + = R[subscript 4] / Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren -- Notes on monumental art / Theo van Doesburg -- The incommensurable / Georges Vantongerloo -- From the letters of the "crystal chain" / Bruno Taut -- Casa Nova (architecture of the future) / Hermann Finsterlin -- From the letters of the "crystal chain" / Hans Scharoun -- Accompanying text to the Dreams of Venus, New York World's Fair, 1939 / Anonymous Author -- Proletarian art manifesto / Theo van Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara and Christoph Spengemann -- Magic architecture / Frederick Kiesler -- Second manifesto of correalism / Frederick Kiesler -- Merz / Kurt Schwitters -- Program of the state Bauhaus in Weimar / Walter Gropius -- Program / Walter Gropius -- Weaving at the Bauhaus / Gunta Stolz -- Walter Gropius -- Bauhaus, Dessau : the obligatory figurative courses held by Albers, Kandinsky, Klee, Schlemmer, and Schmidt -- Art education / Wassily Kandinsky -- Exact experiments in the field of art / Paul Klee -- Bauhaus and typography / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Photography is manipulation of light / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Manifesto "the first Bauhaus exhibition, Weimar, July to September 1923" / Oskar Schlemmer -- The stage and the Bauhaus / Oskar Schlemmer -- Building / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- On form in architecture / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Purism / Charles-Edouard Jeanneret and Amedee Ozenfant -- Ciam : the Charter of Athens -- Discourse to the architects / Fernand Leger -- Modern architecture and color / Fernand Leger -- The principle of wall covering / Adolf Loos -- The house / Adolf Loos -- Metaphysical aesthetics / Giorgio de Chirico -- Architecture and art / Mario Sironi -- Berenice Abbott -- Hugh Ferriss -- As an architect / Bruce Goff -- Manifesto / Constant -- Situationist definitions / Constant/Debord -- Technical manifesto of spatialism / Lucio Fontana -- "GEAM" : program for a mobile architecture / Louis Kahn -- Selected notes / Mark Tobey -- A painter judges architecture / Emilio Vedova -- Non-straightforward architecture : a gentle manifesto / Robert Venturi -- Yves Klein -- Francesco Lo Savio -- Placentarium / Piero Manzoni -- Claes Oldenburg -- Spatiodynamism, luminodynamism, and chronodynamism / Nicolas Schoffer -- Paolo Soleri -- Model as artwork / Germano Celant -- Congruence and consonance between architecture and art / Gianni Pettena -- Minimalist sculpture : environmental and architectonic aspects / Francesco Poli -- Passing through deconstruction : architecture and the project of autonomy / Andrew Benjamin -- Architecture : a different history / Andrea Branzi -- Supplementary notes on architectural painting and its immediate neighbors / Gianni Contessi -- Tower, Coca-Cola cans and Gauloises : the relationship between art and architecture in Aldo Rossi / Gianni Braghieri -- Leaps into the unknown : large-scale projects in collaboration with Frank O. Gehry / Coosje van Bruggen -- Architecture is an art : the contemporary museum as affirmation of an evident tautology / Marco Casamonti -- Contemporary art and the "limits" of architecture / Gianfranco Maraniello -- Moving images of polymorphous spaces / Klaus Biesenbach -- Artists & architects -- Architecture and objects of emotions / Germano Celant -- Imaginary billboards / Germano Celant -- App. Arts chronology / Edited by Francesca Cattoi -- App. Architecture chronology / Edited by Monica Bruzzone -- App. Arts selected bibliography / Edited by Francesca Cattoi and Nandini Nambiar -- App. Architecture selected bibliography / Edited by Monica Bruzzone and Lucia Borghetti |
| Summary |
Impact on architectural style. The catalogue profiles individual artists by presenting color plates of their work with texts of their manifestos and other artistic statements. This volume accompanies a major exhibition held at the Ducal Palace in Genoa, Italy in conjunction with Genoa's role as the 2004 European Capital of Culture. Celant is senior curator for contemporary art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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This large, ambitious volume (2.25" thick; 9.75x11.25") surveys the engagement with architecture 20th-century artists have made, with a vast number of artists represented from Europe and the US. Chapters are included on related topics, including photography and architecture (the jacket title, but not the title page, includes photography in the list of arts included in this volume), architecture and cinema, neorealism in Italy, and many chapters on individual artistic movements and their |
| Notes |
Catalog of the exhibition "Architecture & arts, 1900/2000" held at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Oct. 2, 2004-Feb. 13, 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-784) |
| Subject |
Palazzo ducale (Genoa, Italy)
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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Design -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Celant, Germano.
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Palazzo ducale (Genoa, Italy)
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| LC no. |
2005277341 |
| ISBN |
8876240098 (hbk.) |
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8876240101 (paperback) |
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