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On The Clothes Of A Millennium: The Architectonic Dress Designs Of Zandra Rhodes, Daniel J. Naegele
On The Clothes Of A Millennium: The Architectonic Dress Designs Of Zandra Rhodes, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
"In the beginning was cladding," wrote Viennese architect and critic Adolf Laos in 1898. "Man sought shelter from inclement weather and protection and warmth while he slept. He sought to cover himself. The covering is the oldest architectural detail." This covering was man's clothing. When it was enlarged to fit a frame far grander than his own, architecture was born. In Laos's words " ... the covering had to be put up somewhere if it was to afford enough shelter to a family! Thus the walls were added, which at the same time provided protection on all sides. In this …
Object, Image, Aura: Le Corbusier And The Architecture Of Photography, Daniel J. Naegele
Object, Image, Aura: Le Corbusier And The Architecture Of Photography, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Returning to his studio one evening at dusk, Wassily Kandinsky was enchanted by "an unexpected spectacle." He suddenly saw "an indescribably beautiful picture, pervaded by an inner glow," he wrote in his "Reminiscences" of 1913 . "At first, I stopped short and then quickly approached this mysterious picture, on which I could discern only forms and colors and whose content was incomprehensible. At once, I discovered the key to the puzzle: it was a picture I had painted, standing on its side against the wall." Kandinsky was deeply affected, and the next day attempted a re-creation of his impression of …
An Interview With Ezra Stoller, Daniel J. Naegele
An Interview With Ezra Stoller, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Ezra Stoller's ‘first photograph that ever amounted to anything’ was of Alvar Aalto's Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Aalto was just forty-one years old at the time and soon he — like Gropius, Breuer, Mies, Mendelsohn and so many other German architects and artists — would escape the war in Europe by moving to America. Most of them stayed on, preaching their message in major universities, and finding in this ‘land of hyperreality’ fertile ground for the manifestation of their architectural beliefs. They and their followers —together with the immigrants Saarinen and Kahn and, most importandy, …
The Ready-Made: Duchamp's Thing, Daniel J. Naegele
The Ready-Made: Duchamp's Thing, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Marcel Duchamp fully appreciated the twentieth century's proclivity for certainty and classification and this attitude became an essential component of his art. In this he was not unlike Freud or Einstein or, in his immediate artistic milieu of belle ipoque Paris, Stravinsky or Raymond Roussel. Of the playwright Roussel, Duchamp once noted with admiration that "starting with a sentence ... he made a word game with kinds of parentheses ... His word play had a hidden meaning ... It was an obscurity of another order. Roussel had economically undermined the totalizing tendency of word order, throwing all of its accepted …