Lum, Eric Kim.

Architecture as artform : drawing, painting, collage, and architecture, 1945-1965 / by Eric K. Lum.

©1999.

334 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

The development of an American architectural avant-garde after the Second World War is examined in relation to the formal properties and institutionalized cultural authority of modern art. Rather than looking to the artwork of their American artistic contemporaries, architects and critics appropriated the early European avant-garde as typological precedents, guided by a pedagogical approach steeped in Bauhaus teaching methods. Drawing became the common conduit between the abstract work of art and its transformation into modern architecture. Architecture was seen as a problem that could be studied diagrammatically, and consequently also thought of as a fundamentally conceptual, immaterial artifact. At the same time that architecture was moving towards a flattened artistic condition, however, abstract expressionist painting began to take on the material and dimensional properties of the architectural object, demarcating volume and structure. Modernist collage techniques were also introduced into postwar architectural design, but again the material aspects of the medium were suppressed in favor of its purely visual qualities.

Architecture United States History 20th century.
Art, American 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) United States.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Art américain 20e siècle.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art, American
Architecture
United States

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Academic theses
Thèses et écrits académiques.

Location: Library main 214971
Call No.: NA712 .L8 1999
Status: Available