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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson

Tue, 20 May 2025 10:11:28 GMT

Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson
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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence

Glenn Adamson

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce’s incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer’s own words

In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half century. Bridging numerous key art and design movements, while never belonging to any of them, Pesce’s singular practice has remained steadfastly provocative, defying convention, utility, and good taste.

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Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography

Tue, 1 Dec 2020 07:25:19 GMT

Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography
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A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century

With his elegant suits and trademark round black glasses, Philip Johnson - a witty, wealthy, and well-connected architect - was for many years the most powerful figure in the society and politics of his profession. This impressively illustrated book traces his seven decades of larger-than-life influence, innovation, and controversy in the realm of architecture and beyond. Hundreds of images and documents, many published here for the first time, trace the remarkable life and career of a true legend.

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An Architect in the Garden

Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:49:00 GMT

An Architect in the Garden
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Written by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, foreword by Charles A. Birnbaum, photographed by Peter Aaron.

The first authoritative book on the history of the Glass House property - Philip Johnson's fifty year project of iconic modernist design, encompassing the buildings of the Glass House core, landscape and follies.

Published April 2016

Hardcover

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Philip Johnson and His Mischief: Appropriation in Art and Architecture

Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:49:00 GMT

Philip Johnson and His Mischief: Appropriation in Art and Architecture
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Author: Christian Bjone, 2014

In the world of modern art, the idea of appropriation, or the conscious manipulation of the recognized world of another artist, has long been accepted as a legitimate strategy in criticism of the tradition of art authorship, challenging the context of viewing contemporary work and the manipulation of omnipresent media images. The world of art itself is fair game to be pillaged or mined in the production of new art, but there is almost no recognized equivalent aesthetic in architecture.

Philip Johnson consistently dealt with the concept of appropriation and used it as a design strategy from the very beginning of his illustrious career. A singular taste-maker, Philip Johnson influenced art, architecture and design during the second half of the 20th century. Philip Johnson and His Mischief: Appropriation in Art and Architecture looks at the concept of appropriation and how Johnson's style was influenced first by his mentor, Mies van der Rohe, and then by post-modern ideas and artists.

Charting his career through the 1980s and beyond, this title serves to review Johnson's body of work and show that, far from being a weakness, his use of appropriation was a major part of his innovative success.

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Philip Johnson: Life and Work

Mon, 5 May 2014 17:16:00 GMT

Philip Johnson: Life and Work
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In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century.

The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activists who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, he went on to create controversial and historical structures such as the Glass House, the Roofless Church, the AT & T Building, the Crystal Cathedral, and many more. Johnson's personal charms paired with his manipulative ploys—like his "borrowing" of designs—shine through in this biography.

Drawing on Johnson's correspondence, personal photographs, and speeches, and on interviews with his friends and contemporaries, Schulze fills the biography with fascinating information on the architect's family, travels, friends and lovers, and his many buildings and spaces themselves.

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The Architecture of Philip Johnson

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:30:00 GMT

The Architecture of Philip Johnson
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Published in September 2002, this oversized volume should appeal to anyone interested in the architecture of the 20th century. With a foreword by Johnson himself, an introduction by his biographer Hilary Lewis, the book contains more than 400 color and black-and-white photographs, accompanied by detailed building descriptions, presented in chronological order.

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The Constancy of Change

Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:01:00 GMT

The Constancy of Change
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Published in 2009, this collection includes essays by Beatriz Colomina, Peter Eisenman, Kurt W. Forster, Mark Jarzombek, Charles Jencks, Phyllis Lambert, Reinhold Martin, Detlef Mertins, Joan Ockman, Terence Riley, Vincent Scully, Michael Sorkin, Kazys Varnelis, Stanislaus von Moos, Ujjval Vyas, and Mark Wigley.

In this book, sixteen eminent voices in the architectural establishment present their ideas on Johnson, focusing on both his eclectic design approach and his vivid intellect. Among the topics covered are Johnson’s wide-ranging knowledge of art history, his endorsement of different versions of architectural modernism, his use of rhetoric and the mass media, his social persona, and his politics of patronage. Owing perhaps to the control he exerted over critiques of his work, few scholarly treatments of Johnson exist. This “unauthorized” account, the first in-depth study to follow his death, constitutes a milestone in the analysis of one of America’s most renowned architects.

Edited by Emmanuel J. Petit

Foreward by Robert A.M. Stern

274 pp.

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Philip Johnson Tapes

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:47:00 GMT

Philip Johnson Tapes
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Debateand banter between the irascible Philip Johnson and the equally articulate andopinionated Robert A. M. Stern generates a provocative combination of astutecommentary and personal observation on the state of architecture in thetwentieth century.

Recognized as the dean of American architecture, Philip Johnson had a profoundinfluence on the next generation of architects, including Robert A. M.Stern. Robert A. M. Stern has conducteda series of ten interviews with Philip Johnson, each covering a decade of hislife, that provide an illuminating assessment of a significant period ofAmerican architecture.

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Glass House Book

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:33:00 GMT

Glass House Book
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A unique and comprehensive view into the Glass House
site. This 256-page volume (softcover) designed by Toshio Nakamura with
photography by Michael Moran taken in all four seasons, provides and
incomparable view into the Glass House.

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Harvard Five in New Canaan

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:16:00 GMT

Harvard Five in New Canaan
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A history of New Canaan,Connecticut's unique collection of mid-century modernist houses written bylocal architect William Earls.

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