Arne Jacobsen Tapa dura - 1995

Gustavo Gili, 1995-12. Hardcover. Very Good. Published by Santa & Cole, 1991, hardbound with dust jacket. Spanish/English. Text unmarked, price stickers inside back cover. Modest wear of book. Some fraying of jacket at top of spine, else moderate wear of jacket.

This major monograph on the work of Arne Jacobsen includes not just an assessment of his buildings but sections on furniture, textiles and water colours.
Life and Work - the first part of the book with 12 chapters - covers Jacobsen's early life and education and then looks at fairly contained aspects of how his work developed and organised around marked stylistic phases … so The Reception of International White Modernism is followed by Plastic Form and Space Versus a Two-dimensional Effect; Modern Monumentality and The Time in Sweden that, for instance, covers the period up to and including the Second War.
An analyses of selected works is similarly grouped with seven sections that includes Monumental Modernism; Regional Modernism: Post-War Modernism and The International Style. These are the headings as shown in the table of contents but in the book itself, where headings for each section are marked by a full title page, these headings are expanded in a much more informative way so those same… Leer más