Peering Over the Edge
I. Post-Structuring the World
Bonavture Hotel
Here is an experience from a tourist describing it (for your study)
I’ve no
idea what the Los Angeles cityscape looked like before the Bonaventure was
built in the late 1970s; but now it does not appear out of place on the skyline.
It is almost indistinguishable from the office towers that surround it.
The building does invoke the arguments that Jameson made about it-it tends to
keep out the world, to be almost a world within itself. There are around five
acres of shopping space, but when I wandered around there yesterday (Tuesday LA
time), it was deserted. The shops were all selling crap souveniers and
expensive luxury items. There was a huge contrast between one store selling
reduced-price luggage and others with pricey jewellery.
Bonaventure hotel- Saturn V array
Prague Dancing House
You have
to step across the Jiraskuv Bridge to the Vltava's opposite riverbank and take
a panoramic view of Dancing House's environs to appreciate just how well
Messrs. Gehry and Milunić captured the spirit of the landscape. Dancing House's
wavy stuccowork and pop-out windows elegantly match the window patterns and
quoined and scored exteriors of the neighborhood. Viewed in context, Dancing
House grows naturally from its surroundings, its movement leading to the corner
and to the surprising expression of its jubilant towers.
Perhaps
unavoidably, the whimsical atmosphere that inspired Fred and Ginger faded over
the years; Mr. Havel's death this past December punctuated the end of an era in
Czech and European history. But for a city that has largely moved on, Dancing
House stands as a living reminder of a time when an entire nation shook off its
inertia and kicked up its heels.
Guggenheim Museum
Hailed as the most
important structure of its time when it opened in 1997, Frank Gehry’s
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has changed the way people think about museums and
continues to challenge assumptions about the connections between art,
architecture, and collecting.
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| Guggenheim Museum |
Oslo Opera House
Officially
opened in April 2008, the Oslo Opera House was designed by the acclaimed
Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta. The opera, which took five years to
complete, sits on the bank of the Bjørvika district, near the stock
exchange and the central station. It is the largest cultural building to be
built in Norway since the construction of the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim at the start of the 14th
century.
The foyer is a huge open room with a minimalist décor, using simple materials such as stone, concrete, glass and wood. Here you find seating areas, bars and restaurants.
The main classical horseshoe shaped auditorium, which is one of the most technologically advanced in the world, offers great scenographic flexibility and fantastic acoustics. The stage area measures several thousand square metres and parts of it are as much as 16 metres below the surface of the water.
Sydney Opera House
The distinctive roof comprises sets of interlocking vaulted ‘shells’ set
upon a vast terraced platform and surrounded by terrace areas that function as
pedestrian concourses.
The two main halls are arranged side by side, with their long axes, slightly inclined from each other, generally running north-south. The auditoria face south, away from the harbour with the stages located between the audience and the city. The Forecourt is a vast open space from which people ascend the stairs to the podium. The Monumental Steps, which lead up from the Forecourt to the two main performance venues, are a great ceremonial stairway nearly 100 metres wide.
The vaulted roof shells were designed by Utzon in collaboration with internationally renowned engineers Ove Arup & Partners with the final shape of the shells derived from the surface of a single imagined sphere. Each shell is composed of pre-cast rib segments radiating from a concrete pedestal and rising to a ridge beam. The shells are faced in glazed off-white tiles while the podium is clad in earth-toned, reconstituted granite panels. The glass walls are a special feature of the building, constructed according to the modified design by Utzon’s successor architect, Peter Hall.
The two main halls are arranged side by side, with their long axes, slightly inclined from each other, generally running north-south. The auditoria face south, away from the harbour with the stages located between the audience and the city. The Forecourt is a vast open space from which people ascend the stairs to the podium. The Monumental Steps, which lead up from the Forecourt to the two main performance venues, are a great ceremonial stairway nearly 100 metres wide.
The vaulted roof shells were designed by Utzon in collaboration with internationally renowned engineers Ove Arup & Partners with the final shape of the shells derived from the surface of a single imagined sphere. Each shell is composed of pre-cast rib segments radiating from a concrete pedestal and rising to a ridge beam. The shells are faced in glazed off-white tiles while the podium is clad in earth-toned, reconstituted granite panels. The glass walls are a special feature of the building, constructed according to the modified design by Utzon’s successor architect, Peter Hall.
II. Artifacts and Artifictions
Puppy, Jeff Koons
The piece was purchased in 1997 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation and installed on the terrace outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
In 1998, a miniature version of Puppy was released as a white
glazed porcelain vase, in an edition of 3000.
The Human Condition(1935), Rene Magritte
Artist: Rene Magritte
Completion
Date: 1935
Place
of Creation: Brussels, Belgium
Style: Surrealism
Period: Brussels
pre-war and war years
Genre: symbolic painting
Technique: oil
Material: canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 81 cm
Gallery: Private Collection
Magritte
painted two of these paintings with the same name, The Human Condition, the
most well-known of which is the version painted in 1935. A recurring theme in
Magritte’s works is illustrating an object that is covering up whatever is
behind it. In this painting, the easel used to paint the seascape outside of
the doorway is also hiding the doorway, as well as the seascape. The image
painted on the canvas also merges with the actual image outside of the doorway,
making a seamless transition between the two. Magritte recycled this theme
recurrently throughout his painting career, making many variations on the theme
of including a painting within a painting, hiding whatever lies behind.
- The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in the Washing Machine for Two Minutes | Huang Yong Ping
HUANG
YONG PING
The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in
the Washing Machine for Two Minutes
1987/1993
Chinese tea box, paper pulp, glass
T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2001
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
On December 1, 1987, Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping placed two books into a
washing machine
and washed them for two minutes. One book was titled The History of Chinese Art
by Wang Bomin
and the other was a Chinese translation of The Concise History of Modern
Painting by Herbert Read.
These two tomes were transformed into a pile of unreadable pulp, which the
artist dumped onto a
piece of broken glass mounted on an old Chinese tea crate. The original
sculpture was accidentally
destroyed a few years later, so he remade it in 1993. The writing on the crate
gives the dates and history
of the piece.
The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in the Washing Machine for Two Minutes
1987/1993
Chinese tea box, paper pulp, glass
T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2001
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
On December 1, 1987, Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping placed two books into a washing machine
and washed them for two minutes. One book was titled The History of Chinese Art by Wang Bomin
and the other was a Chinese translation of The Concise History of Modern Painting by Herbert Read.
These two tomes were transformed into a pile of unreadable pulp, which the artist dumped onto a
piece of broken glass mounted on an old Chinese tea crate. The original sculpture was accidentally
destroyed a few years later, so he remade it in 1993. The writing on the crate gives the dates and history
of the piece.
The Physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living, Daimen Hirst
Campbell's Soup Can, Andy Warhol
Artist
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Andy Warhol
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Year
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1962
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Type
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Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
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Dimensions
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20 by
16 inches (51 cm × 41 cm) each for 32 canvases
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Location
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Museum of Modern Art. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, New York, NY
(32 canvas series displayed by year of introduction) |
Accession
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476.1996.1-32
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Campbell's Soup Cans, which is sometimes referred to as 32
Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work of art produced in
1962 by Andy
Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches
(51 cm) in height × 16 inches (41 cm) in width and each consisting of
a painting of a Campbell's
Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the
company offered at the time. The individual paintings were produced
by a printmaking method—the
semi-mechanized screen
printing process, using a non-painterly style. Campbell's Soup
Cans' reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher
in pop
art as a major art movement in the United States.
Artist's Studio Look Mickey, Roy Lichtenstein
Artist
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Year
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1973
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Type
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Pop art
oil, Magna, sand on canvas |
Dimensions
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244.16 cm
× 325.44 cm (96.125 in × 128.125 in)
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Location
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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Artist's
Studio—Look Mickey (sometimes Artist's Studio, Look Mickey, Artist's
Studio – Look Mickey or Artist's Studio No. 1 (Look Mickey))
is a 1973 painting by Roy Lichtenstein. It is one of five large-scale
studio interior paintings in a series. The series is either referred to as the
Artist's Studio series or more colloquially as the Studios and sometimes is
described as excluding the other 1973 painting, reducing the series to four.
Darth Vader, Tommervik
A RUBBER BALL THROWN ON THE SEA, Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence
Weiner, born in New York in 1940, is almost the epitome of the radical
conceptual artist. His most famous works are just words that describe art that
might or might not get made. And that's when Weiner is at his most concrete.
Sometimes his words describe thoughts that are largely unthinkable.
A Weiner
that just went up near the elevators on the third floor of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum establishes that institution as
Washington's main home for cutting-edge art -- even if in this case, that edge
is more than four decades old.
Rubik Mona Lisa, Invader
Well, when it comes to originality, he’s certainly cornered the market.
A street artist known only as Invader is making a killing recreating
famous images such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa – out of Rubik’s Cubes.
He uses up to 800 of the cult 1980s blocks for each work and then sells
them for as much as £20,000 apiece.
And the name of this art movement? Rubikcubism. Invader’s creativity is
inspired by two leitmotifs: Notoriety in movies, novels or real life – Rubik
Bad Men – and iconicity in art – Rubik Masterpieces.
He has recreated the likes of Andy Warhol’s
Campbell’s Soup, historic events such as the 9/11 attack and celebrities
including Stanley Kubrick.
Parda Marfa
Artist
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Elmgreen and Dragset
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Year
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2005
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Type
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Dimensions
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15 ft
× 25 ft (4.6 m × 7.6 m)
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Location
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US 90, Valentine, Texas
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Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture by artists Elmgreen
and Dragset,
situated 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off U.S.
Highway 90
(US 90), and about 26 miles (42 km) northwest of the city of Marfa. The installation was inaugurated
on October 1, 2005. The artists called the work a "pop architectural land art project."
The sculpture,
realized with the assistance of American architects Ronald Rael and Virginia
San Fratello, cost $80,000 and was intended to never
be repaired, so it might slowly degrade back into the natural landscape.This plan was deviated from
when, six days after the sculpture was completed, vandals graffitied the exterior, and broke into the
building stealing handbags and shoes.
Prometheus Bound, Peter Paul Rubens
Prometheus Bound is an oil painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. It shows the
punishment of Prometheus. Begun between
1611 and 1612, it was completed by 1618, with the eagle painted by the
specialist animal painter Frans Snyders. For a long time Rubens kept it in his own
personal collection. It is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Geurnica, Pablo Picaso
Probably Picasso's most famous
work, Guernica is certainly the his most powerful political
statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual
bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during Spanish Civil War.
Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering
it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. This work has
gained a monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of
war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace. On completion Guernica was
displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely
acclaimed. This tour helped bring the Spanish Civil War to the world's
attention.
Fidel Castro (1959 photo), Agan Harahap
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Michael Jordan, LeRoy Neiman
Titled Michael Jordan, issued in 1991, numbered "AP 2/50"
(designating this as a rare artist's proof), and flawlessly signed in pencil
along the lower margin by both Michael Jordan and LeRoy Neiman (each grading
"10"). Edition limited to just 376 total impressions (320 numbered
impressions, 50 artist's proofs, and 6 printer's proofs). This is one of only
two serigraphs ever produced by LeRoy Neiman picturing Michael Jordan and the
only one to feature him exclusively. Utilizing a montage format, Neiman
captures Jordan in an array of poses: dribbling, driving, shooting, and
dunking. This serigraph, which was issued in 1991, the year in which Jordan won
his first of an eventual six World Championships with the Bulls, is widely
recognized as the premier art print of Jordan. The serigraph measures 29.5 x
36.5 inches (image area) and is in Near Mint condition. Beautifully and very
expensively matted and framed to total dimensions of 42.5 x 51 inches.
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