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Art-Architecture Complex

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ISBN-10: 178168104X

ISBN-13: 9781781681046

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Hal Foster

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Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid and Herzog & de Meuron draw on art to reanimate design, architecture has inspired fundamental transformations in painting, sculpture and film, subjects which are also explored here. The book includes an extensive conversation with Richard Serra. At the same time, Foster delineates a “global style” of architecture, as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, analogous to the “international style” of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. More than any art, today’s global style conveys the look of…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 7/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, and the author of many books, including "The Return of the Real", "Design and Crime", "Prosthetic Gods", and "The Art-Architecture Complex". A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2010 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing and the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.

Preface
Image-Building
Global Styles
Pop Civics
Crystal Palaces
Light Modernity
Architecture Vis-�-Vis Art
Neo-Avant-Garde Gestures
Postmodernist Machines
Minimalist Museums
Mediums after Minimalism
Sculpture Remade
Film Stripped Bare
Painting Unbound
Building Contra Image
Endnotes
Illustration Credits
Index