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Author
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After critiquing-and infuriating, the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus.
In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass and steel box designed buildings...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 610 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Gay explores the modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin and New York. This book presents a pageant...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xi, 387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era... Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as 'one of the very few magical women that exist.' But who was this woman who brought these most...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xv, 366 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
From the genteel elegance of Christ Lutheran Church in Minneapolis to the lowbrow wonder of Porky's Drive-in in St. Paul, the Twin Cities and other Minnesota communities are nothing short of a living museum of midcentury modernism, the new style of architecture that swept through much of America from 1945 to the mid-1960s. Renowned Minnesota architecture critic and historian Larry Millett conducts an eye-opening, spectacularly illustrated tour of...
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