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OverviewA novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary conversation about the meaning of time and history for modern art and architecture. The group included architects Louis Kahn, Eero Saarinen, James Gamble Rogers, and Paul Rudolph; artists Anni and Josef Albers; philosopher Paul Weiss; and art historians Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Henri Focillon, George Kubler, and Vincent Scully. These figures were unified by their resistance to the idea that, in order to be considered modern, art and architecture had to be of its time, as well as by the pivotal place that Yale University held as a backdrop to their thinking. The group sponsored a new kind of approach, one that Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen terms “untimely,” emphasizing a departure from a sequential course of events. Ideas about temporal duration, new tradition, the presence of the past, and the shape of time were among the concepts they explored. With an interdisciplinary focus and original research, Pelkonen reveals previously unexplored connections between key figures of American intellectual and artistic culture at midcentury whose works and words would shape modern architecture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eeva-Liisa PelkonenPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300263954ISBN 10: 0300263953 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 25 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews2024 PROSE Award Finalist, Architecture-Urban Planning category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers “A fascinating and polyphonic group portrait, Untimely Moderns has repercussions for the historiography of architecture schools across the western world.”—Mari Lending, author of Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction A fascinating and polyphonic group portrait, Untimely Moderns has repercussions for the historiography of architecture schools across the western world. -Mari Lending, author of Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction Author InformationEeva-Liisa Pelkonen is assistant dean and professor at the Yale University School of Architecture. Her many books include Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics; Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment; and Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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