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Architectural Body by Madeline Gins and Arakawa
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Cover shows rubbing. Tight spine and clean pages.”
- Subject
- Architecture
- ISBN
- 9780817311698
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
0817311696
ISBN-13
9780817311698
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2307161
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Architectural Body
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Urban & Land Use Planning, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Architecture
Series
Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-001061
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"We believe that people closely and complexly allied with their architectural surrounds can succeed in outliving their (seemingly inevitable) death sentences!" --from the Introduction, "This is a strong and important work, as much for its polemic and contentious claims as for its utopian inflections." --Steve McCaffery, poet and Director of the North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics
Dewey Decimal
720/.1
Synopsis
A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another, This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another. This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions about the built environment. This book promotes a deliberate use of architecture and design in dealing with the blight of the human condition; it recommends that people seek architectural and aesthetic solutions to the dilemma of mortality. In 1997 the Guggenheim Museum presented an Arakawa/Gins retrospective and published a comprehensive volume of their work titled Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die. Architectural Body continues the philosophical definition of that project and demands a fundamental rethinking of the terms "human" and "being." When organisms assume full responsibility for inventing themselves, where they live and how they live will merge. The artists believe that a thorough re-visioning of architecture will redefine life and its limitations and render death passe. The authors explain that "Another way to read reversible destiny . . . Is as an open challenge to our species to reinvent itself and to desist from foreclosing on any possibility." Audacious and liberating, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th-century poetry, postmodern critical theory, conceptual art and architecture, contemporary avant-garde poetics, and to serious readers interested in architecture's influence on imaginative expression., A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions about the built environment. This book promotes a deliberate use of architecture and design in dealing with the blight of the human condition; it recommends that people seek architectural and aesthetic solutions to the dilemma of mortality. In 1997 the Guggenheim Museum presented an Arakawa/Gins retrospective and published a comprehensive volume of their work titled Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die. Architectural Body continues the philosophical definition of that project and demands a fundamental rethinking of the terms "human" and "being." When organisms assume full responsibility for inventing themselves, where they live and how they live will merge. The artists believe that a thorough re-visioning of architecture will redefine life and its limitations and render death passe. The authors explain that "Another way to read reversible destiny . . . Is as an open challenge to our species to reinvent itself and to desist from foreclosing on any possibility." Audacious and liberating, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th-century poetry, postmodern critical theory, conceptual art and architecture, contemporary avant-garde poetics, and to serious readers interested in architecture's influence on imaginative expression.
LC Classification Number
NA2500.G455 2002
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