Warped Space

Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture

Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor, The Cooper Union)

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English

MIT Press
22 February 2002

Theory of art; Theory of architecture

Series: The MIT Press

How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century.

Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This ""spatial warping"" is now being reshaped by digitalization and virtual reality. Anthony Vidler is concerned with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space, is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin. Focusing on current conditions of displacement and placelessness, he examines ways in which contemporary artists and architects have produced new forms of spatial warping. The discussion ranges from theorists such as Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists such as Vito Acconci, Mike Kelley, Martha Rosler, and Rachel Whiteread. Finally, Vidler looks at the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry, Coop Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis, and Eric Owen Moss in the light of new digital techniques that, while relying on traditional perspective, have radically transformed the composition, production, and experience-perhaps even the subject itself-of architecture.

By: Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor The Cooper Union)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 175mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9780262720410
ISBN 10: 0262720418
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 22 February 2002
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Winner of <PrizeName>Named one of The Art Book's Best Books of the Decade (March 2003).</PrizeName> 2003
Winner of Named one of The Art Book's Best Books of the Decade (March 2003). 2003
Winner of Named one of The Art Book's Best Books of the Decade (March 2003).</PrizeName> 2003