Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa, Untimely moderns , [2023]
- Title(s):
- Untimely moderns : how twentieth-century architecture reimagined the past / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
- Published/Created:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]
©2023 - Physical Description:
- ix, 205 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNA2500 .P454 2023 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu]Reference LibraryNA2500 .P454 2023 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16706997
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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, Everett Victor Meeks, James Gamble Rogers, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen; artists Anni and Josef Albers; philosopher Paul Weiss; and art historians Henri Focillon, George Kubler, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and Vincent Scully. These figures were unified by their resistance to the idea that, to be considered modern, art and architecture had to be of its time, as well as by the pivotal role that Yale University held as a backdrop to their thinking. These thinkers 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, Pelkonen reveals previously unexplored connections among key figures of American intellectual and artistic culture at midcentury whose works and words would shape modern architecture."--Dust jacket. - Subject Terms:
- Architectural practice.Architecture -- Philosophy.Architecture -- Philosophy.Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.Time -- Philosophy.Time -- Philosophy.Time perception.Yale University -- Buildings.
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