Main entry:

Hejduk, John, 1929-2000.

Title & Author:

Adjusting foundations / John Hejduk ; edited by Kim Shkapich.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press : Distributed by Penguin USA, ©1995.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Basic elements -- Maze house -- A house in the maze -- Poseidon and persephone's tombs -- Painter's city house by the canal borders pine woods -- Cemetery for the ashes of the still life painters -- Hous/studio of the still life painter -- Medical complex: painter's journey -- The builder in stone: a discourse -- Five pieces in folk style: Robert Schumann -- One gallery and three museums -- +-x+ -- Fixed flight -- Chapel and tombs -- Night house -- House for the keeper of the archives on persephone -- House of the dead -- Theater of the dead -- The still life painter's complex -- Chapel -- Warehouse -- Church Court Garden -- Garden Courts and Chapel -- Still Life Museum/Museum for Still Life -- Two Chapels for the Dead: Heaven -- Hell-/Day -- Night -- Adjusting Foundations -- Two Chapels for the Dead: North West East South -- Two Sacred and The Profane -- Night Thoughts for Say Dreams -- Church -- Chapel -- Sanctuary -- Baptistry -- Church Chapel Star Stone -- Red Cathedral and A Creche of Angels Flew From the Wall -- A Painters House -- Library For Still LIfes -- Cathedral -- Church and Baptistry -- Tunis : Carthage -- Basic Elements -- Berlin -- Geometric Flowers -- Church -- Chapel -- Prague Chapel -- East -- The Seaman's Church -- The Solid Wave -- Sound Volume House -- The Suspended Punctured Roof -- Northern Tower -- Tomb of The Sun Moon and Star -- Municipal Building For Baku -- Community Center -- Vladivostok -- House IN Harbin -- Icarus Arisen -- Persephone's Descent -- Seville Structure -- Passage -- The Wooden Medusa -- Wednesday December 7 4 AM

Summary:

Hejduk presents a series of rich watercolor paintings, each cubist in spirit, each an assemblage and celebration of color and form. These explorations give birth to sixty-one project proposals, including serpentine structures, secret spaces, and houses constructed of horizontal and vertical mazes. Simultaneously investigated are the relationships between Eastern thought and the Western world (in terms of Hejduk's own intellectual and visual journey from the West to the East), art and architecture, and humans and nature.
This provocative combination of inventive and deeply personal drawings and writings explores the dynamic relationship between the still life of the painter and the work of the architect. Renowned architect John Hejduk asks, "If the painter could by a single transformation take a three-dimensional still life and paint it on a canvas into a natura morta, could it be possible for the architect to take the natura morta of a painting and by a single transformation build it into a still life?"

ISBN:

1885254067 (pbk.)
9781885254061 (pbk.)

Subject:

Hejduk, John, 1929-2000 Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Hejduk, John, 1929-2000
Bouwkunst.
Schilderkunst.
Tekenkunst.
Bouwprojecten.
Architects United States 20th century.

Form/genre:

notebooks.
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Notebooks.
Cahiers.

Added entries:

Shkapich, Kim.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 117328
Call No.: NA44.H473 (ID:95-B1344)
Status: Available