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Since antiquity, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed a relationship between the arts; modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. Published in two volumes, The Built Surface offers a series of essays in which the... Read more
Contents: Preface, Christy Anderson and Karen Koehler; List of illustrations; Introduction, Karen Koehler; Félix Duban, Early Photography and the Circulation of Images, Barry Bergdoll; ’Great Gaps and Voids’: John Singer Sargent’s Interior Abyss, Susan Sidlauskas; Architecture, Ornament and Pictorialism: Notes on the History of the Idea, Alina Payne; Henry van de Velde’s Bloemenwerf: English Books and Belgian Art Nouveau, Amy Ogata; Empathy and Abstraction at the Munich Artists’s Theatre, Juliet Koss; The Expressionist Sublime, Iain Boyd Whyte; Scratching the Membrane: Photography and Building in Early Twentieth Century Southern Nigeria, Ikem Stanley Okoye; From Werkbund to Entartung: Willi Baumeister’s ’Wall Pictures’ Peter Chametzky; From Monument to Muralnomad: The Mural in Modern European Architecture, Romy Golan; Le Corbusier’s ’Synthesis of the Major Arts’ in the Context of the French Reconstruction, Christopher Pearson; Skyscraper Vision in Early Science Fiction, Haim Finkelstein; Berenice Abbott’s ’Changing New York’ and Urban Planning Debates, Peter Barr; ’Picturesque’ Urban Pastoral in Post-War New York City, Terrence Diggory; Constructed Grounds: New Strategies in Contemporary European Architecture, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Index.
Biography
Christy Anderson, Christy Anderson is Associate Professor of the History of Art at Yale University where she teaches Renaissance and Baroque architecture. She has published widely on English architecture and the theory of classicism. Also edited by Karen Koehler.
