Paola Berenstein Jacques: Estética da ginga: A arquitetura das favelas através da obra de Hélio Oiticica (2001) [Portuguese]
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, brazil, city, favela, neo-concrete art, philosophy, tropicalia, urbanism
Estética da ginga goes from a transcendental gesture [the rising of the artist, Hélio Oiticica, to favela’s hill] to perform a mapping in three fields: artistic, architectural and, by extension, the sociocultural.
The book pursues an interdisciplinary frontier, narrowing notions of art, architecture and philosophy.
The life and work of Hélio Oiticica serve as a living model for this aesthetic in which the “ginga”, dancing, covering and uncovering his body of dancer, artist, slum inhabitant, the artist evokes at the same time the samba of the “favelas”, the “favelas” themselves, and shows us that the origin of the artwork changes every moment in the life of a city, a group, a man, in a sort of ephemeral joy.
Publisher Casa da Palavra, Rio de Janeiro, 2001
ISBN 8587220438
160 pages
via Andreia Costa
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Comment (0)Allan Janik, Stephen Toulmin: Wittgenstein’s Vienna (1973)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, city, history, language, music, philosophy, vienna, vienna circle
“The central figure in this portrait of a crumbling society giving birth to the modern world without realizing it was Wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young thinker whose great book remains the key to modern thought and who went on to influence a whole generation of English thinkers, artists and scientists.
As a portrait of a man, this book is superbly realized. It is even better as a portrait of the age and milieu in which our modern ideas were born–not only in philosophy, but in art, music, literature, architecture, design and style.”
Publisher Simon and Schuster, New York, 1973
A Touchstone Book
ISBN 0671217259, 9780671217259
314 pages
Review: Barry Seldes (H-Net, 1996).
Wittgenstein’s Vienna (English, 1973)
La Viena de Wittgenstein (Spanish, trans. Ignacio Gomez de Liaño, 1998; removed on 2017-10-3 upon request of publishre)
Siegfried Giedion: Architecture, You and Me: The Diary of a Development (1956/1958)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, city, history of architecture, painting, sculpture, urbanism
Collection of essays from 1937-1956 by an influential Prague-born and Switzerland-based historian and critic of architecture.
First published in German as vol. 18 of the Deutsche Enzyklopaedie under the title Architektur und Gemeinschaft by Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1956
Translated by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1958
221 pages
Review: Harold Ehrensperger (The Saturday Review).
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