Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts

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Giuliana Bruno (Professor, Harvard University) Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor, The Cooper Union)

Public Intimacy

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Architecture and the Visual Arts

Giuliana Bruno (Professor, Harvard University), Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor, The Cooper Union), Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)

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Massachusetts Inst of Tec
16 March 2007

Architecture

Series: Writing Architecture

An examination of architecture and art as a screen of vital cultural memory that considers museum culture, visual technology, and the border of public and private space.

In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving space-a screen of vital cultural memory-has come to shape our visual culture. Taking on the central topic of museum culture, Bruno leads the reader on a series of architectural promenades from modernity to our times. Through these ""museum walks,"" she demonstrates how artistic collection has become a culture of recollection, and examines the public space of the pavilion as reinvented in the moving-image art installation of Turner Prize nominees Jane and Louise Wilson. Investigating the intersection of science and art, Bruno looks at our cultural obsession with techniques of imaging and its effect on the privacy of bodies and space. She finds in the work of artist Rebecca Horn a notable combination of the artistic and the scientific that creates an architecture of public intimacy. Considering the role of architecture in contemporary art that refashions our ""lived space""-and the work of contemporary artists including Rachel Whiteread, Mona Hatoum, and Guillermo Kuitca-Bruno argues that architecture is used to define the frame of memory, the border of public and private space, and the permeability of exterior and interior space. Architecture, Bruno contends, is not merely a matter of space, but an art of time.

By: Giuliana Bruno (Professor Harvard University)
Preface by: Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor The Cooper Union)
Series edited by: Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780262524650
ISBN 10: 0262524651
Series: Writing Architecture
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 16 March 2007
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Giuliana Bruno is Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz award for the world's best book on the moving image, and Streetwalking on a Ruined Map, winner of the 1993 Kovacs prize for best book in film studies. Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He is the author of Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), and The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), both published by The MIT Press, and other books.

Reviews for Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts

Bruno's command of theory helps her unravel what is meaningful in kinds of art that have become pervasive: rambling installation and artwork that takes on architecture. Her writing is distinguished from that of, for instance, John Rajchman or Anthony Vidler by her signature personal texture and inventive wordplay. -Yasmeen M. Siddiqui, Modern Painters Bruno's command of theory helps her unravel what is meaningful in kinds of art that have become pervasive: rambling installation and artwork that takes on architecture. Her writing is distinguished from that of, for instance, John Rajchman or Anthony Vidler by her signature personal texture and inventive wordplay. -Yasmeen M. Siddiqui, Modern Painters * Reviews *