Title & Author:

Surrealism and architecture / edited by Thomas Mical.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Thomas Mical -- 'Un salon au fond d'un lac' : the domestic spaces of surrealism / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- Aragon's armoire / Gray Read -- "Home poor heart" : the architecture of Cornell's desire / Dickran Tashjian -- Matta's lucid landscape / Bryan Dolin -- Menace : surrealist interference of space / Silvano Levy -- Daphne's legacy : architecture, psychoanalysis and petrification in Lancan and Dali / Spyros Papapetros -- Ghost in the machine / Alexander Gorlin -- "Gift of time" : Le Corbusier reading Bataille / Nadir Lahiji -- Introjection and projection : Frederick Kiesler and his dream machine / Stephen Phillips -- Invernizzi's exquisite corpse : the Villa Girasole : an architecture of surrationalism / David J. Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, Paul Lewis -- Tangency of the world to itself : the Casa Malaparte and the metaphysical tradition / Jacqueline Gargus -- Modernist urbanism and its monsters / David Pinder -- Surrealism and the irrational embellishment of Paris / Raymond Spiteri -- Re-enchanting the city : the utopian practices of the Paris group of the surrealist movement / Jill Fenton -- Landscape surrealism / Fernando Magallanes -- Surreal city : the case of Brasilia / Richard J. Williams -- Latencies and imago : Blanchot and the shadow city of surrealism / M. Stone-Richards -- Surrealism's unexplored possibilities in architecture / Jean La Marche.
Most architectural thing / Kari Jormakka -- Acropolis, now! / James Williamson.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.
Library copy: presentation copy to Phyllis Lambert from Thomas Mical.

Summary:

Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.

ISBN:

0415325196 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780415325196 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
041532520X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415325202 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0203358155 (ebook)
9780203358153 (ebook)

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture)
Surrealism Influence.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Surréalisme Influence.
Surrealism.
Modern Movement.
Modern Architecture (object genre)
Architectural theory.
Influence.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Added entries:

Mical, Thomas, 1965-
Dolin, Bryan.
Fenton, Jill.
Fijałkowski, Krzysztof.
Gargus, Jacqueline.
Gorlin, Alexander.
Jormakka, Kari.
La Marche, Jean.
Lahiji, Nadir, 1948-
Levy, Silvano.
Lewis, David J., 1966-
Lewis, Paul, 1966-
Magallanes, Fernando.
Papapetros, Spyros.
Phillips, Stephen, architect.
Pinder, David.
Read, Gray.
Spiteri, Raymond.
Stone-Richards, M.
Tashjian, Dickran, 1940-
Tsurumaki, Marc, 1965-
Williams, Richard J., 1967-
Williamson, James P.
Williamson, Jim (James)
Presentation copies. Mical, Thomas, 1965- Inscription.
Provenance. Lambert, Phyllis. Inscription.
Autographs. Mical, Thomas, 1965-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237585
Call No.: NA682.M63 S87 2004
Status: Available