Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition
Santa Monica: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, (1994). Hardcover. 4to. 129,[3],pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Top right corner of front board slightly bumped, same area on dj rubbed. Minor staining and scuffing on dj. "Although Hermann Muthesius is best known today in Anglo-American architectural literature for his studies of the English house, these impressive volumes were only one aspect of a more encompassing modernist polemic emanating from the German realist movement of the late 1890's. Style-Architecture and Building-Art published in 1902, was Muthesius's first serious effort to define the lineaments of early Modernism. This critical and highly opinionated text not only presages and underscores the tenets of the Deutsche Werkbund (founded five years later) but can itself be viewed as an important cornerstone of the Modern Movement." Seventh title in the series Texts & Documents which offers to the student of art, architecture, and aesthetics neglected, forgotten, or unavailable writings in English translation. With one b/w reproduction of a photograph showing Hermann and Anna Muthesius. Dj and binding in very good, interior in near fine condition. vg. Item #21234
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