Author: Blistene, Bernard and Alison M. Gingeras and Alain Guiheux Title: Premises: Invested Spaces in Visual Arts, Architecture & Design from France, 1958-1998
Description: New York, NY, Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1998. Hardcover. Color pictorial boards with turquoise lettering; 543 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw photos and figures. Exhibition checklist laid in. Catalogue from the exhibition of October 1998 to January 1999 at the Guggenheim Museum, SoHo. With sections on the visual arts, architecture and design. Three introductory essays and essays to begin each section. Contents as follows: Introductory essays: Consuming myths / Sylvère Lotringer -- Premises, premises : sketches in remembrance of a recent graphic turn in French thought / Denis Hollier -- A genealogy of time : the Nietzschean dimension of French cinema, 1958-98 / D.N. Rodowick -- Plenty or nothing : from Yves Klein's Le vide to Arman's Le plein / Benjamin H.D. Buchlon -- French film at the mirror : the cultivation and defacement of the look / Dudley Andrew -- DATAR : la mission photographique / Philippe Abaïzar -- Localities : between public and private space -- Sites of memory -- Enclosures -- Framing the spatial : between voyeurism and the cinematic -- Zones of communication/space of exchange -- Architecture: Political will and the cultural identity crisis in late-twentieth-century French architecture / Joseph Abram -- Form versus relation -- Elevating the conditions of living -- The fabrication of architecture -- Fragment versus container -- Devices : architecture as mechanism -- Design: Toward a semantic and critical approach to the term design / Sophie Tasma-Anargyros -- Sylvain Dubuisson -- Garouste & Bonetti -- Philippe Starck -- Martin Szekely -- Film and video programs. VG .
Keywords: European Art ; French Design ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 113556.1
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