The Art-Architecture Complex

The Art-Architecture Complex
Author: Hal Foster
Publisher: Verso Books
Language: English
Pages: 320
Size: 14 x 21 cm
Weight: 582 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9781781681046
Price: €22.00
Product Description

A leading art theorist analyses the global style in art and architecture
Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies.

More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the “art-architecture complex” provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis.