Architecture and Cubism,9780262523288

Architecture and Cubism

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780262523288
ISBN10: 0262523280
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-03-07
Publisher(s): Mit Pr
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Summary

Together, these essays show that although there were many points of intersection--historical, metaphorical, theoretical, and ideological--between cubism and architecture, there was no simple, direct link between them.

Table of Contents

Foreword viii
Phyllis Lambert
Preface x
Eve Blau
Nancy J. Troy
Introduction 1(16)
Eve Blau
Nancy J. Troy
The Maison Cubiste and the Meaning of Modernism in Pre-1914 France
17(24)
David Cottington
The Burden of Cubism: The French Imprint on Czech Architecture, 1910-1914
41(18)
Irena Zantovska Murray
Cubism and the Gothic Tradition
59(18)
Kevin D. Murphy
``Architecture'' in Leger's Essays, 1913-1933
77(12)
Robert L. Herbert
Architecture of the cubist Poem
89(28)
Jay Bochner
The Cell in the City
117(24)
Paul Overy
Where Are We?
141(26)
Beatriz Colomina
Unnatural Acts: Propositions for a New French Garden, 1920-1930
167(20)
Dororthee Imbert
Cubistic, Cubic, and Cubist
187(8)
Yve-Alain Bois
Jeanneret-Le Corbusier, Painter-Architect
195(24)
Bruno Reichlin
Anything But Literal: Sigfried Giedion and the Reception of Cubism in Germany
219(33)
Detlef Mertins
Contributors 252(3)
Photographic Credits 255(2)
Index 257

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