Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Julius Shulman

Peter Goessel

Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to re-define the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and international - both during the program's existence and even to this day. TASCHEN brings you a monumental retrospective of the entire program with comprehensive documentation, brilliant photographs from the period and, for the houses still in existence, contemporary photos, as well as extensive floor plans and sketches.

Case Study Houses. Ediz. inglese, francese e tedesca

El programa Case Study House (1945-1966) fue un verdadero hito en la historia de la arquitectura de Estados Unidos. Patrocinado por la revista Arts & Architecture,surgió como respuesta al boom inmobiliario de la posguerra, y su objetivo era poner al alcance del ciudadano medio estadounidense prototipos de viviendas modernas que fueran económicas y fáciles de construir. Localizado en la zona de Los Ángeles, incluía 36 prototipos encargados a los arquitectos más prestigiosos de la época, como Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles y Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones y Ralph Rapson. Uno de sus criterios era emplear siempre que fuera posible “técnicas y materiales creados durante la guerra que mejor se adaptaran a la vida del hombre en el mundo moderno”. Los resultados del programa redefinieron el concepto de vivienda moderna, y su influencia no solo se expandió por Estados Unidos sino también por todo el mundo. Esta guía compacta de TASCHEN incluye todos los proyectos del Case Study House, ilustrados con más de 150 fotografías y planos, además de un mapa con su ubicación, incluso de aquellos ya desaparecidos. Sobre la serie Cada libro de la Serie Básica de Arquitectura de TASCHEN incluye: ensayos introductorios que exploran la procedencia, vida y obra del arquitecto; las obras más importantes por orden cronológico; información sobre los clientes, los requisitos arquitectónicos y los problemas y soluciones surgidos durante la puesta en práctica de los proyectos; una lista de obras selectas y un mapa con el emplazamiento de las edificaciones más conocidas y destacadas; aproximadamente 120 imágenes, entre las que se incluyen fotografías, bocetos, dibujos y planos de planta.

Case Study Houses

History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses

Blueprints for Modern Living

With 36 prototype designs, the Case Study House program created paradigms for modern living that would extend their influence far beyond their Los Angeles heartland. This essential introduction features 150 photographs and plans to explore each of these model residences and their architects, including Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and...

Russell Ferguson

Margaret Honda

Recto Verso : [exhibition]

Alison Pearlman

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Julie Rodrigues Widholm

With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, Iìigo Manglano-Ovalle, KerryJames Marshall, Mariko Mori, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare and H. C. Westermann. In an introductory essay, chief curator Elizabeth Smith discusses key trends in art from World War II to the present and provides a brief history of the MCA and its collection. Additional, accessible short texts by the curatorial staff of the MCA focus on individiual works.

Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Collection

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain

Donna M. De Salvo

Lee Bontecou

Lee Bontecou became widely known early in the 1960s for her welded steel sculptures into which various fabrics, metals and found objects were incorporated. This monograph is a major survey of Bontecou's work and provides an opportunity to re-evaluate the career of the artist.

A Retrospective

Amelia Jones

Cindy Sherman

Amada Cruz

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2/11/97 - 1/2/98; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 28/2/98 - 31/5/98.

Retrospective

Francesco Bonami

Hilton Als

Charlotte Cotton

Douglas Fogle

Helen Molesworth

Long awaited, the first survey of the work of one of America's foremost contemporary fine art photographers For almost 40 years, Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America. This unique artist monograph presents a compelling visual narrative of Opie's work since the early 1980s, pairing images across bodies of work to form a full picture of her artistic vision. With more than 300 beautiful illustrations and made in close collaboration with Opie, the book marks a turning point in the consideration of this artist's work to date.

Catherine Opie

Uta Barth

At the Edge of the Decipherable, Recent Photographs

Essayists Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self.

Emily Rothrum

Anne Wagner

Half theWorld traces the ways in which women artists deftly transformed the language of sculpture to invent radically new forms and processes that privileged studio practice, tactility and the artist's hand. The volume seeks to identify the multiple strains of proto-feminist practices, characterized by abstraction and repetition, which rejected the singularity of the masterwork and rearranged sculptural form to be contingent upon the way the body moved around it in space. The catalogue begins in the immediate post-war era, with the first section spanning the late 1950s through the 1950s. Featuring historically important predecessors including Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein and Louise Nevelson, this section examines abstraction based on the human figure and the influence of the unconscious. The second section covers the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, and includes Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Heidi Bucher, Gego, François Grossen, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Marisa Merz, Mira Schendel, Michelle Stuart, Hannah Wilke, and Jackie Winsor, a generation of post-minimalist artists who ignited a revolution in their use of process-oriented materials and methods. In the 1980s and 1990s, the period explored in the third section, artists Phyllida Barlow, Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Senga Nengudi, and Ursula von Rydingsvard moved beyond singular, three-dimensional objects toward architectonic works characterized by repetition, structure, and design. The final section is comprised of post-2000 works by artists Karla Black, Abigail DeVille, Sonia Gomes, Rachel Khedoori, Lara Schnitger, Shinique Smith, and Jessica Stockholder, artists who create installation-based environments, embracing domestic materials and craft as an embedded discourse.

Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016

Revolution in the Making

Esther McCoy

This book documents Arts & Architecture magazine's sponsorship of some of the most important architects of the region and the generation reflecting an unprecedented commitment to reinventing the house as a way of redefining living.

Elizabeth A. T. Smith

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