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Le Corbusier before Le Corbusier : applied arts, architecture, painting, photography, 1907-1922

By: Le Corbusier [1887-1965, Role: architect] (Dir)Contributor(s): Moos, Stanislaus von (Ed) | Ruegg, Arthur [1942-] (Ed) | "Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts | Stiftung ""Langmatt"" Sidney und Jenny Brown"Language: English Publication details: New Haven Yale University Press 2002 ISBN: 0300266251Subject(s): Le Corbusier, 1887-1965=-ExhibitionsGeneral note: This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: applied arts, architecture, painting, and photography, 1907-1922' held at the Langmatt Museum, Baden, Switzerland, with the title, 'Der Junge Le Corbusier' (March 30 - June 30, 2002), and at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York (November 22, 2002 - February 23, 2003).Online resources: [A&AePortal (Yale University Press)]
Contents:
Foreword / Susan Weber Soros -- Preface / Eva-Maria Preiswerk-Lösel -- Introduction / Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg -- Chronology / compiled by Klaus Spechtenhauser -- Voyages en zigzag / Stanislaus von Moos -- Le Corbusier and the gothic / Pierre Vaisse -- Jeanneret, the city, and photography / Leo Schubert -- Architecture : proportion, classicism, and other issues / Francesco Passanti -- The challenge of the ""grand siècle"" / Antonio Brucculeri -- Marcel Levaillant and "" la question du mobilier"" / Arthur Rüegg -- From art nouveau to purism : Le Corbusier and painting / Françoise Ducros -- Catalogue / with contributions from H. Allen Brooks [and others].
Summary: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index.Summary: In his numerous writings Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922-- the year he changed his name from Pierre Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book offer in unprecedented detail an account of Le Corbusier's formative years and the cultural, intellectual, and creative concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris.Summary: 2022"
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Foreword / Susan Weber Soros -- Preface / Eva-Maria Preiswerk-Lösel -- Introduction / Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg -- Chronology / compiled by Klaus Spechtenhauser -- Voyages en zigzag / Stanislaus von Moos -- Le Corbusier and the gothic / Pierre Vaisse -- Jeanneret, the city, and photography / Leo Schubert -- Architecture : proportion, classicism, and other issues / Francesco Passanti -- The challenge of the ""grand siècle"" / Antonio Brucculeri -- Marcel Levaillant and "" la question du mobilier"" / Arthur Rüegg -- From art nouveau to purism : Le Corbusier and painting / Françoise Ducros -- Catalogue / with contributions from H. Allen Brooks [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index.

In his numerous writings Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922-- the year he changed his name from Pierre Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book offer in unprecedented detail an account of Le Corbusier's formative years and the cultural, intellectual, and creative concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris.

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