Mies van der Rohe : Montage = collage / herausgegeben von Andreas Beitin, Wolf Eiermann, Brigitte Franzen ; Übersetzung, Fiona Elliott, Helen Ferguson, Ben Fergusson, Sarah Rivière, Christina Bösel.
Publisher:
Koenig Books,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
263 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Mies van der Rohe: the collages from the MoMA" held at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, October 28, 2016-February 12, 2017 and the Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, February 26-May 28, 2017. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The museum design for Schweinfurt / Dissociation of time : Some ideas on Mies and collage / Wolf Eiermann. Mies, Dada, montage : Notes on a reception history / Dietrich Neumann -- Friedrichstrasse : The contexts of an image, 1922-1924 / Adrian Sudhalter -- "This type lives": Montages of architectonic imagery / Lutz Robbers -- Montage collage -- The visuality of space and the space of vision : On Mies van der Rohe's late photocollages / Martino Sterli -- Between reality and ideal : The function of collage in Mies van der Rohe's oeuvre in relation to the design context / Lena Buchel -- Montage collage -- Walk-in collage : Mies van der Rohe's design of his 1947 exhibition at MoMA / Barry Bergdoll -- "Architecture, painting, and sculpture as a creative unity" : About Mies can der Rohe's visions on art and architecture / Holger Otten -- Montage collage -- From Glashaus to "glass houses" : Mies van der Rohe's collages in the context of contemporary art / Andreas Beitin -- The museum design for Schweinfurt / Wolf Eiermann.
Summary:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most important architects, created numerous montages and collages between 1910 and 1965 that are fascinating illustrations of the design principles of his architecture. These works, most of them large-format, are far more than merely sketches that accompanied his creative process as an architect. They are works of art in their own right that show Mies van der Rohe's structural vision in its purest form. Like almost no other visual art technique, collage and photomontage reflect the aesthetic principles, the zeitgeist, and the attitude to life of Modernism.
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