Autonomy and ideology : positioning an avant-garde in America / edited by R.E. Somol.

Title & Author:

Autonomy and ideology : positioning an avant-garde in America / edited by R.E. Somol.

Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, 1997.

Description:

363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Proceedings of a conference in honor of Philip Johnson held Feb. 1-3, 1996 at Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art.
Introduction : Columbia University / Bernard Tschumi -- Introduction : the Museum of Modern Art / Terence Riley -- Statement of editorial withdrawal / R.E. Somol -- Kirstein's circle : Cambridge, Hartford, New York, 1927-1931 / Phyllis Lambert -- A conversation around the avant-garde / Philip Johnson and Jeffrey Kipnis -- The avant-garde revisited / Colin Rowe -- Autonomy and the avant-garde : the necessity of an architectural avant-garde in America / Peter Eisenman -- The road not taken : Alexander Dorner's way beyond art / Joan Ockman -- Wild kingdom : Frederick Kiesler's display of the avant-garde / Mark Linder -- The importance of not being earnest : "a trivial comedy for serious people" / Paulette Singley -- The avant-garde is not at home : Richard Neutra and the American psychologizing of modernity / Sylvia Lavin -- Winners and losers : interpreting the Mumford of The Brown decades / Francesco Dal Co -- System and freedom : Sigfried Giedion, Emil Kaufmann, and the constitution of architectural modernity / Detlef Mertins -- CIAM : city at the end of history / Mitchell Schwarzer -- The fallacy of misplaced concreteness and the "avant-garde" in America / Sanford Kwinter -- Abstraction's appearance (Seagram building) / K. Michael Hays -- Eno/abling architecture / Rem Koolhaas -- 1949 / Beatriz Colomina.

ISBN:

1885254598 (paperback)
9781885254597 (paperback)

Subject:

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History 20th century Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Architecture, Postmodern Congresses.
Architecture 20e siècle Congrès.
Architecture postmoderne Congrès.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Somol, R. E.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193583
Call No.: NA680.A94 (ID:97-B4634)
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 214611
Call No.: NA680.A94 (ID:97-B4634)
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

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