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Contemporary art about architecture

Name: Contemporary art about architecture
Author: Isabelle Loring Wallace

Isabelle Loring Wallace

22 May 2013

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Book Synopsis

An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subject. Concentrated on works made since 1990, Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility is the first to take up this topic in a sustained and explicit manner and the first to advance the idea that contemporary art functions as a form of architectural history, theory, and analysis. Over the course of fourteen essays by both emerging and established scholars, this volume examines a diverse group of artists in conjunction with the vernacular, canonical, and fantastical structures engaged by their work. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Matthew Barney, Monika Sosnowska, Pipo Nguyen-duy, and Paul Pfeiffer are among those considered, as are the compelling questions of architecture's relationship to photography, the evolving legacy of Mies van der Rohe, the notion of an architectural unconscious, and the provocative concepts of the unbuilt and the unbuildable. Through a rigorous investigation of these issues, Contemporary Art About Architecture calls attention to the fact that art is now a vital form of architectural discourse. Indeed, this phenomenon is both pervasive and, in its individual incarnations, compelling - a reason to think again about the entangled histories of architecture and art.

About The Author

Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, USA. Nora Wendl is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at Portland State University, USA.

Product Details

ISBN: 9781409432869
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Routledge, (22 May 2013)
Number of Pages: 368
Weight: 1050 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 246 x 171 x 32 mm
Categories:: History of art History of architecture