Main entry:

Cheatle, Emma, author.

Title & Author:

Part-architecture : the Maison de Verre, Duchamp, domesticity and desire in 1930s Paris / Emma Cheatle.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xv, 229 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of London, 2013) under title: Part-architecture : the Maison de Verre through the Large Glass.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- The Maison de Verre through the Large Glass -- Part-architecture -- Design -- Book structure -- PART I -- 2.Histories: the Maison de Verre through the Large Glass -- The Maison de Verre -- Form -- Pierre Chareau -- Modernist representation -- References to the Large Glass -- Provocation -- The Large Glass -- Form -- Notes -- History: lens, body objects, transmission -- The Maison de Verre -- Women in Paris -- Procreative imperatives -- Jean Dalsace and the Maison de Verre -- 3.Theories: part-object, part-architecture -- Part-object -- L schema -- Part-object -- Spatial experience -- Part-architecture -- Writing part-architecture -- Design methods -- Lacan's glass, dust, air -- PART II -- 4.Glass -- Glass and modernity -- Glace sans tain -- Verre presse -- Transparency -- Shop window -- Vitrine -- Lens -- Mirror -- Translucency -- Convolutions, cuts and slips -- Glass part-architecture -- 5.Dust -- Material collection -- Dust
Note continued: Dust breeding -- Skin -- Decay -- City dust -- House -- Cleaning and modernity -- Housekeeping -- House as archive -- Plans -- Dark room -- Architecture as archive -- Dust recovery -- Four women -- Annie Dalsace -- Dark rooms -- Housekeeper -- Dusting -- Writing dust -- Motes -- Mary Reynolds -- Dust jackets -- Dust part-architecture -- 6.Air -- Atmosphere -- Air de Paris -- Draughts -- Ventilation and air circulation -- Cast air -- Infrathin and Irigaray -- Fissure -- Cast air -- Transmission -- Sounding -- Mouthing -- 7.Coda -- A leave-taking.

Summary:

Part-Architecture' presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre, makes original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s Paris, and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass. Through a rich analysis, which incorporates creative projects into history and theory research, the book establishes new ways of writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife, Annie Dalsace, the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a gynaecology clinic into a 'free-plan' layout. Screened only by glass walls, the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de Verre through another radical glass construction, the Large Glass, where Duchamp's complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital conventions of 1920s Paris. 0This and other analyses of the Large Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a register of the changing history of women's domestic and maternal choices, reclaiming the building as a piece of female social architectural history.

ISBN:

9781472471697 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472471695 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(epub)
9781472471710
(epdf)
9781472471703
9781315599434
1315599430
9781317084044
1317084047
9781317084037
1317084039
9781317084020
1317084020
1472471717
1472471709

Subject:

Chareau, Pierre Criticism and interpretation.
Dalsace, Jean Homes and haunts France Paris.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even.
Chareau, Pierre.
Dalsace, Jean.
Maison de verre (Paris, France)
Maison de Verre (Paris, France)
Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (Duchamp, Marcel)
Human body (Philosophy)
Architecture and women France Paris History 20th century.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects France Paris History 20th century.
Transparency in architecture France Paris.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Architecture et femmes France Paris Histoire 20e siècle.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social France Paris Histoire 20e siècle.
Transparence en architecture France Paris.
Architecture and women.
Buildings.
Homes.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects.
Transparency in architecture.
Glass construction.
Glass in art.
Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
France Paris.

Form/genre:

Theses.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298140
Call No.: BIB 244412
Status: Available