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From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings—a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Weber writes about Le Corbusier's training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassai; . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier's work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. [...] [...] Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about “a marvelous transformation of society,” then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Weber writes about Le Corbusier's fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a “pure and guileless soul.” She saw him as “irresistibly funny.” “What a shame you're an architect!” she wrote. “You'd have made such a good partner!”. A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.
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Présentation de l'éditeur : Voici la première biographie complète de Le Corbusier, l'un des architectes les plus admirés du xxe siècle,né en 1887 et mort en 1965. L'un des plus controversés aussi : ne lui reproche-t-on pas d'avoir voulu raser Paris et d'être à l'origine de nos maux urbains ? À rebours de la légende qui entoure cet artiste secret et lunatique, Nicholas Fox Weber retrace un parcours d'exception : celui d'un jeune homme, né Charles-Édouard Jeanneret dans le Jura suisse, qui s'installe définitivement à Paris en 1917, bien décidé à bouleverser à tout jamais la manière de vivre de ses contemporains, alors qu'il n'a pas de diplôme d'architecte. Ses constructions modernistes, comme les villas La Roche et Savoye, enflamment les avant-gardes. Sa vision futuriste de l'habitat, individuel comme collectif, s'incarne dans de nombreuses réalisations : l'Unité d'habitation de Marseille, l'abbaye de Ronchamp ou encore le couvent de La Tourette… Théoricien de l'urbanisme et de l'architecture, Le Corbusier est sollicité dans le monde entier, jusqu'en Inde où il conçoit, à la fin de sa carrière, une ville entière : Chandigarh. Dans cet ouvrage richement illustré et nourri d'archives en partie inédites -dont la correspondance privée de l'architecte -, Weber brosse le portrait touchant d'un artiste irascible et dépressif, tendre et enthousiaste. Il décrit un homme étanche à toute forme d'engagement politique, prêt, pour obtenir des commandes, à faire le siège des puissants, qu'ils s'appellent Staline, Mussolini, Pétain ou De Gaulle… C'est aussi un Le Corbusier intime que l'on découvre. Lebiographe révèle son rapport avec les femmes et, en premier lieu, avec sa mère, une Jurassienne revêche, dont il cherchera en vain l'approbation toute sa vie. Il raconte son mariage long de vingt-sept années avec une femme qui ne s'intéressait absolument pas à l'architecture et refusait qu'il en soit question à table, ainsi que ses nombreuses aventures - notamment avec Joséphine Baker… Une somme magistrale qui rend justice à l'un des génies les plus singuliers du siècle passé Source : http://www.bibliosurf.com/C-etait-Le-Corbusier
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Artists --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Designers --- History --- Bauhaus
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Bauhaus --- avant-garde --- modernisme --- geschiedenis --- Gropius, Walter --- Klee, Paul --- Kandinsky, Wassily --- Albers, Jozef --- Albers, Anni --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig --- 20ste eeuw --- Duitsland
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Arts, American. --- Arts, American --- Art patrons --- Arts américains --- Arts modernes --- Mécènes --- Biographie
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Bauhaus.. --- iPhone (Smartphone). --- Product design. --- Bauhaus.
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Kunstnijverheid --- textilia --- 746.07 --- Textielkunst ; 20ste eeuw ; Anni Albers --- Anni Albers (Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann), 1899-1994 (°Berlijn, Duitsland) --- Textiel ; Bauhaus --- 746.1 --- Textielkunst ; textielkunstenaars --- Weefkunst --- 746.1 Weefkunst --- Albers, Anni (Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann) 1899-1994 (°Berlijn, Duitsland) --- Textielkunst ; weven --- textilia (objectnaam)
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L'école du Bauhaus, fondée en 1919 à Weimar, accueille jusqu'en 1930 une communauté d'artistes. Après avoir côtoyé Josef et Anni Albers, le seul couple du groupe, l'auteur retrace leur vie ainsi que celle de quatre autres artistes à l'origine du concept de l'école, à commencer par Walter Gropius, le fondateur, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky et Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. ©Electre 2015
Modernisme (Art) --- Art, German --- Art allemand --- Bauhaus --- History. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- History --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Germany - History - 20th century
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In Poems and Drawings, first published in 1958, Josef Albers attempted to penetrate the meaning of art and life by the simplest, most disciplined means. This project was extremely important to Albers, who used its format to create complementary forms in both word and line that appear deceptively simple until they begin to disclose the author's insights into nature, art, and life. Conceived as a kind of artist's book, the publication features 22 of Albers's refined line drawings alongside the same number of his original poems-each appearing in both English and German.Printed initially in a limited edition and long out of print, this new edition of Poems and Drawings replicates Albers's original book design and includes four previously unpublished poems that reveal playful and tender details behind Albers's personal relationships, along with a new introduction by Nicholas Fox Weber.For admirers of Albers, Poems and Drawings will provide a closer look at a celebrated artist who was also an affectionate and articulate writer. (Copié du site "http://www.amazon.com")
Dessin --- Poésie --- Albers, Josef
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