Public Intimacy
Architecture and the Visual Arts
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2007
Summary
An examination of architecture and art as a screen of vital cultural memory that considers museum culture, visual technology, and the border of public and private space.In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving sp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262524650 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262524651 |
| Author: | Giuliana Bruno, Anthony Vidler |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Writing Architecture |
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Critics Review
–Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University
Bruno’s command of theory helps her unravel what is meaningful in kinds of art that have become pervasive: rambling installation and artwork that takes on architecture. Her writing is distinguished from that of, for instance, John Rajchman or Anthony Vidler by her signature personal texture and inventive wordplay.
—Yasmeen M. Siddiqui, Modern PaintersAbout The Author
Giuliana Bruno
Giuliana Bruno is Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Atlas of Emotion- Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz award for “the world’s best book on the moving image,” and Streetwalking on a Ruined Map, winner of the 1993 Kovacs prize for best book in film studies.Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He is the author of Warped Space- Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), and The Architectural Uncanny- Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), both published by The MIT Press, and other books.
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