Author: von Moos, Stanislaus (and) Arthur Ruegg
Title: Le Corbusier Before le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, Photography, 1907-1922
Description: New Haven, Yale University, 2002. Hardcover. A gray fabric casebound book with the title printed in red down the spine. There is a gray, illustrated dust jacket. The title is printed on the front cover and down the spine in red. The headband is red. The front and back free and pasted end pages are a light gray. Pages: (9), 10-322. Profusely illustrated with full-color, true-tone, and black-and-white images. "In his numerous writings Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922 - the year he changed his name from Pierre Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book offer in unprecedented detail an account of Le Corbusier's formative years and the cultural, intellectual, and creative concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris. "This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Langmatt Foundation in Baden, Switzerland, and the Bard Graduate Center, New York." Contents are as follows: Foreword / Susan Weber Soros -- Preface / Eva-Maria Preiswerk-Lösel -- Introduction / Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg -- Chronology / compiled by Klaus Spechtenhauser -- Voyages en zigzag / Stanislaus von Moos -- Le Corbusier and the gothic / Pierre Vaisse -- Jeanneret, the city, and photography / Leo Schubert -- Architecture : proportion, classicism, and other issues / Francesco Passanti -- The challenge of the "grand siècle" / Antonio Brucculeri -- Marcel Levaillant and " la question du mobilier" / Arthur Rüegg -- From art nouveau to purism : Le Corbusier and painting / Françoise Ducros -- Catalogue / with contributions from H. Allen Brooks [and others] -- Notes to the catalogue -- Checklist of the exhibition. VG+/VG+: In excellent condition. Looks like it has rarely been taken from the shelf. Both book and jacket have sharp edges.

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