Alloys (eBook)

American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury

Marin R. Sullivan (Autor)

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2022
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23246-1 (ISBN)

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A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern designAlloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa. Leading architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero Saarinen turned to sculptors including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, Richard Lippold, and Isamu Noguchi to produce site-determined, large-scale sculptures tailored for their buildings' highly visible and well-traversed threshold spaces. The parameters of these spaces-atriums, lobbies, plazas, and entryways-led to various designs like sculptural walls, ceilings, and screens that not only embraced new industrial materials and processes, but also demonstrated art's ability to merge with lived architectural spaces.Marin Sullivan argues that these sculptural commissions represent an alternate history of midcentury American art. Rather than singular masterworks by lone geniuses, some of the era's most notable spaces-Philip Johnson's Four Seasons Restaurant in Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Max Abramovitz's Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, and Pietro Belluschi and Walter Gropius's Pan Am Building-would be diminished without the collaborative efforts of architects and artists. At the same time, the artistic creations within these spaces could not exist anywhere else. Sullivan shows that the principle of synergy provides an ideal framework to assess this pronounced relationship between sculpture and architecture. She also explores the afterlives of these postwar commissions in the decades since their construction.A fresh consideration of sculpture's relationship to architectural design and functionality following World War II, Alloys highlights the affinities between the two fields and the ways their connections remain with us today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 25 color + 125 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 666 fifth avenue • abstract expressionism • Ada Louise Huxtable • Adolph Gottlieb • Alexander Calder • Alexander Liberman • Alexander Stirling Calder • Aline B. Saarinen • Anish Kapoor • architectural design • architectural firm • Architectural Forum • architectural historian • Architectural Record • Atomic Age • Black Mountain College • Buckminster Fuller • Charles and Ray Eames • Charles Sheeler • Claes Oldenburg • Constantin Brâncu?i • Contemporary Society • Designer • Donald Deskey • Dropped ceiling • Edgar J. Kaufmann • Edward Durell Stone • Edward Larrabee Barnes • Eero Saarinen • Eliel Saarinen • Eliot Noyes • Fine Art • Florence Knoll • Frank Gehry • George Nelson (designer) • Gordon Bunshaft • Ground Floor • Harry Bertoia • Harvard Graduate Center • Henry-Russell Hitchcock • Herbert Bayer • Herbert Ferber • Herbert Matter • Herman Miller (manufacturer) • Inland Steel Building • Interior design • International Style (architecture) • Isamu Noguchi • Jack Burnham • John Cage • Josiah McElheny • Kevin Roche • La Grande Vitesse • Le Corbusier • Lee Bontecou • Lever House • Lighting • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts • Manufacturers Trust Company Building • Marcel Breuer • Marcel Duchamp • Mark Rothko • Mark Tobey • Mary Callery • Max Abramovitz • Mid-century modern • Minimalism • MIT Chapel • Modern Architecture • modernism • Modern sculpture • Mural • Natalie de Blois • National Gallery of Art • Naum Gabo • Noguchi table • Olivetti • Philip Johnson • Pietro Belluschi • Public Art • Richard Lippold • Robert Rauschenberg • Saul Steinberg • sculpture • Seagram Building • Shoji Sadao • Sigfried Giedion • Sven Markelius • The Architects' Collaborative • The Broad • The Typewriter • Urban renewal • Vestibule (architecture) • Vincent Scully • Walter Gropius • Weathering steel • Whitney Museum of American Art • William Baziotes • Wingspread • work of art
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23246-6 / 0691232466
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23246-1 / 9780691232461