Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History
center image, a man pushing his head against a solid wall represents the thesis central to much of modernist formalism—that the ...
forced concrete almost as a sculptor might use resilient clay, Wright, who often described his architecture as “organic,” design ...
LE CORBUSIER Compared with his pristine geometric design for Villa Savoye (FIG. 35-75), the organic forms of Le Corbusier’s Notr ...
JOERN UTZONSaarinen was responsible for selecting the Dan- ish architect Joern Utzon(b. 1918) to build the Sydney Opera House (F ...
Philip Johnson (FIG. 36-64). By this time, the concrete-steel-and- glass towers pioneered by Louis Sullivan (FIGS. 31-40and 31-4 ...
M aya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (FIG. 36-62) is, like Minimalist sculptures (FIGS. 36-15and 36-16), an unad ...
57,939 casualties (and those still missing) incised on the memorial’s walls, in the order of their deaths, contribute to the mon ...
The piazza’s most immediate historical reference is to the Ro- man forum (FIGS. 10-12and 10-43). However, its circular form al- ...
in contrast to modernist glass-sheathed skyscrapers. His design of its exterior elevation is classically tripartite, having an a ...
ROGERS AND PIANODuring their short-lived partnership, British architect Richard Rogers(b. 1933) and Italian architect Renzo Pian ...
with Donald Judd (FIG. 36-16) and Claes Oldenburg (FIG. 36-26), Gehry works up his designs by constructing models and then cutti ...
atrium (FIG. 36-70) soars to 165 feet in height, serving as the focal point for the three levels of galleries radiat- ing from i ...
Environmental and Site-Specific Art Like Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial (FIG. 36-62), works of Environmental Art,sometimes ...
As I looked at the site, it reverberated out to the horizons only to suggest an immobile cyclone while flickering light made the ...
1016 Chapter 36 EUROPE AND AMERICA AFTER 1945 W hen Richard Serra installed Tilted Arc (FIG. 36-74) in the plaza in front of the ...
Performance and Conceptual Art and New Media Among the most significant developments in the art world after World War II has bee ...
(b. 1924), involved such actions as throwing paint balls at blank can- vases or wallowing in mud as a means of shaping it. In Ma ...
Dead Hare (FIG. 36-77). This one-person event consisted of styl- ized actions evoking a sense of mystery and sacred ritual. Beuy ...
Tinguely turned on the machine, smoke poured from its interior and the piano caught fire. Various parts of the machine broke off ...
Other Conceptual artists pursued the notion that the idea is a work of art itself by creating works involving invisible material ...
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