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Architecture: What Zaha Hadid next When a new exhibition at the Hayward on the relationship between art and fashion needed a designer, an architect who wears Manolo stilettos and Miyake pleats was the obvious choice.
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The catalogue to a new exhibition opening on 8 October at the
Hayward, called Addressing the Century: 100 years of Art & Fashion,
shows a little statue by Oskar Schlemmer, head of the Bauhaus school
in 1925. With its satellite dish for a head, power-dressed sleeves
with studs on, and hula-hoop skirt in steel on tiptoed wire points,
it both highlights the fact that fashion can be timeless, and shows
what has fallen out of fashion this century: the crossover between
art and fashion and architecture. The curator of the exhibition,
Peter Wollen, believes that by signing up architect Zaha Hadid ...
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Piranesi: the aesthetic of eclecticism and his Egyptian style.(Giovanni Battista Piranesi )(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; Giovanni Battista Piranesi is undoubtedly best known for his...fashioned visionary of design reform, Piranesi advocated the creative recombination...ornaments and new manners. (1) Piranesi articulated these ideas in response...
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Displeasure of ruins: Piranesi and the monuments of ancient Rome: Piranesi's depictions of the ruins of ancient Rome had enormous influence, but they have been widely misunderstood. As Lola Kantor-Kazovsky argues, they were not intended to provoke pleasurable reflections on the effects of time: they are instead tragic images of the wheel of fortune.(Giovanni Battista Piranesi)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; A recurring dilemma in Piranesi studies is the question whether the...generated neoclassical taste in Europe, Piranesi cannot simply be understood in the...in point. It was once claimed that Piranesi's passion for Roman ruins makes...
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Piranesi's images inspire works from Poe to video games
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...the exhibition "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture...connection to the Piranesi works. Add to that several prints by Piranesi's contemporaries, Giovanni Antonio Canal...and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696...
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Piranesi's Ruins, Still in Good Standing; 18th-Century Etchings Pass the Test of Time
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an 18th-century architect who...their fame today is worldwide. A Piranesi exhibition is therefore a holiday...assembling an assortment of more than 300 Piranesi prints. As a result, the first floor...
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Master Architect Of the Fallen Arch; Piranesi Etchings Evoke a Rome in Ruins
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...But there is nothing like a Piranesi etching to convey the collapse...century architect and artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. With a vivid imagination and...the artist's epic visions. Piranesi exploded scale in ways that...
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Prison reform; MFA exhibition shows Piranesi couldn't escape.(Scene)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...sunlight, the chambers of artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi's prisons sprawl toward infinity...in the contemporary buildings Piranesi saw around him, nor even in...prisons were complete inventions. Piranesi was a master observer of architecture...
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Piranesi's defence of Roman architectural invention.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review
; 4356 Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Observations on the Letter by...index. Pbk. Price: $US 35.00. Piranesi ( 1720-1778) lived during the...History of the Art of Antiquity). Piranesi would have none of it. He argued...
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Gallery talk a highlight of Piranesi etching exhibit
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ...engravings by 18th century printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi, is hosting a gallery talk Sunday afternoon by local expert and Piranesi collector Richard Wendorf. Wendorf's talk, "Living with Piranesi," will center on the collection...
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Piranesi's Dream: A Novel.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; Gerhard Kopf. Piranesi's Dream: A Novel. Trans. Leslie...eighteenth-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Calling to mind Browning's crazed creative narrators, Piranesi, in a hermetically sealed voice...
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In Piranesi's Prisons, Fantasy Freely Expressed
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prisons of the Imagination aren...offers a timely reinterpretation of Piranesi's architectural allegories of power...the National Academy of Sciences. Piranesi (1720-78) was in his twenties...
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