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Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and its Discontents: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

Autor Hilde Heynen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 iul 2019
A major voice in the architectural culture of the fifties and sixties, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was uniquely engaged with modernism and modernity. As the wife and collaborator of László Moholy-Nagy, she was expected to provide him with the material that was crucial for his modernist mission, whilst trying to carve out her own subjectivity as a writer. As an architectural critic she was one of the early voices articulating doubts about the path modernist architecture was taking, demystifying the myths of the masters, Mies, Le Corbusier and Gropius, and questioning their heroic, masculinist approach.This book analyzes the significance of the life and work of Moholy-Nagy and explores the paradoxical aspects of the relationship between modernism and feminism. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked figures in modernism, it is both an examination of her work and legacy, and also a study on the roles of gender and of the changing nature of modernism in its trajectory from Europe to America.Drawing on personal papers, diaries, letters and lecture notes, as well as personal interviews with relatives, colleagues and students, this study brings to light the significance of the life and work of a remarkable woman.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350094116
ISBN-10: 1350094110
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 81 b&w illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Part of the new Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects

Notă biografică

Hilde Heynen is Professor of Architectural Theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Cuprins

Introduction1. Life trajectory2. Vernacular architecture and the uses of the past3. Engaging with modernism4. Narrative of architecture and the city5. Teaching as vocation6. Alliances and controversies: positioning Sibyl Moholy-NagyNotesIndex

Recenzii

A significant contribution to the history of post-war architecture and of twentieth-century modernism more generally, providing a timely appraisal of a critical voice who added much to the architectural discourse of her period.
The overarching questions about the status of feminism within modernism are original, creative and important . . . I really believe this book will change the way in which historians and critics look at mid-century modernism.