Main entry:

Feuerstein, Günther.

Title & Author:

Androgynos : das Mann-Weibliche in Kunst und Architektur = the male-female in art and architecture / Günther Feuerstein ; [Mitarbeiterinnen des Autors, Johanna Krenn, Elke Wikidal ; englische Übersetzung, Michael Robinson].

Publication:

Stuttgart : A. Menges, ©1997.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
1. Concepts Employed -- 2. Unity -- Division -- Unification -- 3. Non-Christian Myths -- Religions -- Philosophies -- 4. Christianity. Judaism -- 5. Reversibility. Change of Sex -- 6. Androgyny in Modern Art -- 7. Sexual Symbolism in Architecture -- 8. Together -- 9. Androgynous Architecture -- 10. Conclusion.
Also issued online.
German and English.

Summary:

"If we grant architecture the ability to form metaphors, to make statements about human existence, to go beyond fulfilling everyday needs, then here too the question of sexuality must become visible. We know the theory that something upright is phallic-male and that rooms, caves and domes represent the uterine-female. But this book goes a - doubtlessly speculative - step further. It makes a mental leap to recognize something specifically androgynous in architecture: the "tower on the dome" as a symbol of union, of penetration, of conjunction (which is love and aggression at the same time), the "house within the house" as a symbol of a being within a being etc."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

3930698749
9783930698745

Subject:

Androgyny (Psychology)
Androgyny (Psychology) Religious aspects.
Androgyny (Psychology) in art.
Architecture.
Androgynie.
Androgynie Aspect religieux.
Androgynie dans l'art.
architecture (discipline)
Typologie
Kunst
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Geschichte
Art.

Added entries:

Krenn, Johanna.
Wikidal, Elke.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201154
Call No.: N8217.A53 F4 1997
Status: Available