Premises : invested spaces in visual arts, architecture, & design from France, 1958-1998 / [Bernard Blistène, Alison M. Gingeras, Alain Guiheux ; with essays by Joseph Abram [and others]].
Catalog for the exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Oct. 13, 1998-Jan. 11, 1999. Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Contents:
Introductory essays: Film and video programs. Sophie Tasma-Anargyros -- Premises, premises : sketches in remembrance of a recent graphic turn in French thought / Denis Hollier -- A genealogy of time : the Nietzschean dimension of French cinema, 1958-98 / D.N. Rodowick -- Plenty or nothing : from Yves Klein's Le vide to Arman's Le plein / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- French film at the mirror : the cultivation and defacement of the look / Dudley Andrew -- DATAR : la mission photographique / Philippe Abaïzar -- Localities : between public and private space -- Sites of memory -- Enclosures -- Framing the spatial : between voyeurism and the cinematic -- Zones of communication/space of exchange -- Architecture: Political will and the cultural identity crisis in late-twentieth-century French architecture / Joseph Abram -- Form versus relation -- Elevating the conditions of living -- The fabrication of architecture -- Fragment versus container -- Devices : architecture as mechanism -- Design: Toward a semantic and critical approach to the term design / Sophie Tasma-Anargyros -- Sylvain Dubuisson -- Garouste & Bonetti -- Philippe Starck -- Martin Szekely -- Film and video programs.
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