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Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
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ISBN: 9780307701534 0307701530 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf

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"From one of our foremost architectural writers: an engaging, brilliant exploration of the life and work of the most famous architect of our time, and one of the few architects ever to be widely admired by both critics and the general public.This first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry presents and evaluates the work of a man whom fifty architects, critics, and historians assembled by Vanity Fair designated "the most important architect in the world." It discusses at length his major buildings: from his own house--an "exploded" Dutch Colonial in Santa Monica--to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, which has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture. It considers the work in light of Gehry's personal life: the influence of his immigrant grandparents, his two marriages, his close relationships to an unusual circle of celebrated clients and friends, his longtime therapist. It analyzes his carefully created "aw, shucks" persona and the intense ambition it masks; examines Gehry's anxieties about fame and how his "outsider" status as a Los Angeles architect allowed him to experiment in useful ways; and finally discusses how he thinks about and employs technology to change not just the way a building can look but the way architecture itself is practiced"


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After Art
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ISBN: 1283571978 9786613884428 1400845149 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled by globalization, artists and architects are emphasizing networks as never before. Some of the most interesting contemporary work in both fields is now based on visualizing patterns of dissemination after objects and structures are produced, and after they enter into, and even establish, diverse networks. Behaving like human search engines, artists and architects sort, capture, and reformat existing content. Works of art crystallize out of populations of images, and buildings emerge out of the dynamics of the circulation patterns they will house. Examining the work of architectural firms such as OMA, Reiser + Umemoto, and Foreign Office, as well as the art of Matthew Barney, Ai Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, and many others, After Art provides a compelling and original theory of art and architecture in the age of global networks.

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Art and society. --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Psychology. --- Social aspects --- Acropolis Museum. --- Ai Weiwei. --- Alejandro Zaera-Polo. --- Alexander Nemerov. --- Andy Warhol. --- Antonio Negri. --- Art Basel. --- Art history. --- Art museum. --- Art world. --- Arthur Danto. --- Bernard Tschumi. --- Bill Ayers. --- Boris Groys. --- Bruno Latour. --- Calculation. --- Capitalism. --- Clement Greenberg. --- Commodity. --- Conceptual art. --- Contemporary art. --- Creative Commons. --- Cultural Property (Japan). --- Cultural capital. --- Curator. --- Customer. --- Damien Hirst. --- De Stijl. --- Decolonization. --- Diagram. --- Digital photography. --- Dissemination. --- Electronic Disturbance Theater. --- Emblem. --- Epistemology. --- Financial capital. --- Frank Gehry. --- Globalization. --- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hans Belting. --- High culture. --- Iconology. --- Ideology. --- Illegal immigration. --- Income. --- Infrastructure. --- Instance (computer science). --- Institution. --- Institutional Critique. --- Kunsthalle Wien. --- Lawrence Lessig. --- Le Corbusier. --- MIT Press. --- Manifesto. --- Market economy. --- Matthew Barney. --- Michael Hardt. --- Michel Foucault. --- Modern architecture. --- Modernism. --- Museum. --- Narrative. --- Neoliberalism. --- Newspaper. --- Overproduction. --- Ownership. --- Oxford University Press. --- Parametricism. --- Photography. --- Postcard. --- Public sphere. --- Publication. --- Rachel Harrison. --- Rem Koolhaas. --- Repatriation (humans). --- Rhetoric. --- Richard Meier. --- Rirkrit Tiravanija. --- Rosalind E. Krauss. --- Roselee Goldberg. --- Saskia Sassen. --- Scalability. --- Sherrie Levine. --- Social space. --- Subodh Gupta. --- Surrealism. --- T. J. Clark (art historian). --- Tactical media. --- Tania Bruguera. --- The Society of the Spectacle. --- Tourism. --- Understanding. --- Venice Biennale. --- Visual culture. --- Walker Evans. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Wealth. --- Website. --- Work of art.

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