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The German series
1981-1982
Project
Project series documents a project that started as an installation intented for Documenta 7 at Kassel, Germany. The installation was not realized but turned into a series of photographs and mixed media drawings of cities scapes and buildings of Germany developped between 1981 and 1987. The material in this project series refers at this project at "The German Series". The project series includes photographs possibly to be presented with the installation, sketches of the installation, reference materials, and notes.
Material in this series was likely kept in it's original order when it was first processed upon it's arrival at CCA.
English, German, French
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1 File
sheet: 43.3 x 53.2 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
© Melvin Charney
DR1984:1578
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 65 x 50 cm
Berlin Germany
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 56.0 x 56.0 cm
Framed.
Berlin Germany
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Acheté de Melvin Charney /
Purchased from Melvin Charney
1 File
sheet: 29 x 21 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 92,2 x 125,7 cm
Framed.
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Acheté de la Galerie René Blouin /
Purchased from Galerie René Blouin
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 106.7 x 152.4 cm
Framed.
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada/
Purchased with support of the Canada Council's Acquisition Assistance program
Consists of sketches titled, "Way stations", "Way station and chair", "Man chair", "Visions of the temple", "Passages" and "Ledoux".
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 17.6 × 13.5 cm sheet (largest): 28 × 21.5 cm
Germany
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the German Series, with specific references to:
- Stuttgart installation;
- Better if they think they are going to a farm.
1 File
book: 23,6 × 17,9 × 4,2 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Box containing photographs, sketches, architectural drawings (including one photocopy), a transparency, newspaper clippings, and notes related to the German series. Box labelled: BETTER IF THEY THINK ..... Kassel, 1982. Stuttgart, 1983.
1 box(es)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English and French, including notes, reference materials, and photographic materials related to the German series. Original folder inscribed in graphite: GERMAN SERIES DOCUMENTATION / NOTES
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 7,3 × 15,7 cm (2 7/8 × 6 3/16 in.) sheet (largest): 21,4 × 27,7 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing photographs of the following artworks:
- Better if they think they are going to a farm... no. 3;
- The other city... visions of the temple no. 4;
- Fragments of the forgotten city... nos. 6, 8, 12;
- A Stuttgart façade.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: German Series (1) - better if they think ... - Stuttgart Façade
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 17,5 × 12,5 cm (6 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.) sheet (largest): 25,1 × 20 cm (9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing photographs and transparencies related to the German series, including the following artworks:
- St. Anne's in Retlaw... forgotten cities;
- Houses on the prairie... chez Keegstra;
- Pliny's other villa;
- Way station, no. 4.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: German Series (3) -Way Stations -Pliny's Other Villa -In an Alberta Town -Cathedral Camp
1 file(s)
sheets: 20 × 25,1 cm (7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing notes, sketches, and photographs of the following artworks:
- The city, no. 3... in the valley of the kings;
- The city, no. 2... the trinity at Suinion.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: German Series (5) The Archaic Gods
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 25,1 × 20 cm (9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet (largest): 21,3 × 27,7 cm (8 3/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English, including press clippings, and reference materials related to the German series. Original folder inscribed in graphite: PLAN 1984/19 NOTES ON GERMAN SERIES TO COMPLETE
1 file(s)
sheet: 27,7 × 21,3 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English, French and German (predominant), including brochures, newspaper clippings, notes, negatives, photographs, printouts, reference materials, and sketches related to the German series. Original folder inscribed in graphite: "BETTER THEY THINK..." GERMAN SERIES. PROJECT, NOTES 1980-82. KASSAL
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 21,4 × 13,7 cm (8 7/16 × 5 3/8 in.) sheet (largest): 27,7 × 21,4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in German, including brochures, copies of the magazine werk und zeit, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and posters related to Melvin Charney's participation in a conference in Darmstadt, West Germany. Original folder inscribed in graphite: DOCUMENTA URBANA 1980-82 GERMANY
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing photographic materials of the following artworks:
- Better if they think they are going to a farm... no. 3;
- Fragments of the forgotten city... nos. 6, 10, and 12;
- The other city... visions of the temples, nos. 2 and 4.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: "THE FORGOTTEN CITY" "THE ETERNAL CITY" "VISIONS OF THE TEMPLE" 1983+
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 17,5 × 12,6 cm (6 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.) sheet (largest): 20 × 25,1 cm (7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing photographs related to the German series. Original folder inscribed in graphite: GERMAN SERIES GALLERY INSTALLATION 1982
1 file(s)
sheets: 20,1 × 25 cm (7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing notes, photocopies of sketches, photographic materials, and sketches related to the German series. Original folder inscribed in graphite: GERMAN SERIES : FACADE / STUTTG / CHICAGO / 1983
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 20,1 × 25,1 cm (7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.) sheet (largest): 21,4 × 27,7 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing photographs of the following artworks:
- Houses on the prairie...chez Keegstra;
- St. Anne's in Retlaw ... forgotten cities.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: GERMAN SERIES: CHEZ KEESTRA / WAY STATIONS ETC.
1 file(s)
sheets: 25 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing photographs, reference materials, and sketches related to the German series.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: GERMAN SERIES: THE ARCHIAIC GODS
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 25 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet (largest): 21,3 × 27,7 cm (8 3/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
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