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Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and its Discontents [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 288 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 748 g, 81 b&w illus
  • Serija: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Jul-2019
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1350094110
  • ISBN-13: 9781350094116
  • Formatas: Hardback, 288 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 748 g, 81 b&w illus
  • Serija: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Jul-2019
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1350094110
  • ISBN-13: 9781350094116

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.

Recenzijos

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. * Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK * 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. * Alice T. Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American Art, Co-Director, Architecture Program, Wellesley College, USA *

Daugiau informacijos

A new title in the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, examining the work of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, architectural critic and important contributor to the discourse on modernist architecture.
List of image credits
vii
Acknowledgements x
Foreword xiv
Introduction 1(10)
1 Life Trajectory
11(42)
Family background
11(4)
In search of a profession
15(3)
Establishing a family
18(5)
Migration: London and Chicago
23(5)
The Harvard manuscript and Children's Children
28(5)
Moholy's widow
33(4)
Becoming a professor
37(2)
A critic feared and admired
39(14)
2 Vernacular Architecture and the Uses of the Past
53(38)
Opting for architectural history
54(2)
The vernacular: Between academia and banality
56(2)
Documenting vernacular architecture
58(8)
The vernacular as counter-image for the modern
66(4)
Native, anonymous, vernacular, primitive
70(5)
Double critique
75(3)
The future of the past
78(13)
3 Modernism and the Forces of History
91(44)
Moholy's intellectual legacy
93(4)
The Cold War setting
97(7)
Architecture - art or design?
104(5)
Modern architecture in South America
109(5)
Considering the masters
114(7)
American architecture coming of age
121(14)
4 The Great City and Its Civic Culture
135(38)
Urban planning in Latin America
136(4)
Neighbourhoods, housing and public buildings
140(4)
The four environments of man
144(4)
Matrix of Man
148(8)
In defence of architecture
156(3)
The urban condition
159(14)
5 Teaching as a Vocation
173(34)
Teaching architectural history
174(4)
The role and relevance of architectural history
178(5)
A beachcomber of history
183(7)
A nation in an uncanny mood
190(5)
Crisis at Pratt
195(12)
6 A Controversial Figure
207(28)
Alliances and controversies
208(6)
Matriarchy and motherhood
214(7)
Feminism and modernism
221(6)
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: A forgotten intellectual?
227(8)
General bibliography 235(12)
Bibliography of the writings of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy 247(9)
Index 256
Hilde Heynen is Professor of Architectural Theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.