ART SPACE (ΠΡΩΤΟΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ)

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If Artists are not among the most creative people among us, then who are? This book explores the effect their personal spaces had in their creativity. It is the study of Space where Art was born, and it is a study of Space seen through the lense of Artists. Central Theme of focus is the space where Artists lived and worked, and through this the preferences and attitudes Artists developed toward Space. How they collaborated, communicated and cross-fertilized with Architects throughout the Art and Architectural movements in history up to the first fifteen years of the 21st century it is a book, result of many years of original research and visits to houses and studios of renowned Artists, exploring their lifelong struggles, which occasionally took metaphysical and postmortem dimensions. Yet, despite the reasons of the motivation for such museums, the space which had acted as a cradle of Art and creativity during the artist's life, became an agent for immortality after death. Thus, "Art Space" is expressive of function of life, death and after death into one. "Art Space" therefore, refers to these spaces where Artists lived and worked, to the circumstances and issues related to these spaces, as well as to the cross-fertilizational effect such spaces had to architecture in general. "Art Space" as the book proceeds and as the exploration of the chapters reveals, eventually becomes an idea and a way of life, covering the Globe, bringing together the creative community impulses of Mankind. [...] (From the publisher)

I should perhaps avoid to say that the book and research at hand were triggered by personal obsession. Yet it would be hypocritical. My fascination with personal space had purely personal roots. As an architect I had my ideas and preconceptions about silence and its sound, the color and the touch, its fragrance ......... its unique atmosphere! The natural light animating the interiors of the large models of my students, has stamped my memory with myriad of visions, ecstatic personal experiences of awe, pleasure of the sublime, tangible exchanges of the product of the teacher- student involvement with the spatial creative process. Next to all this were the personal memories from visits and experiences of meritorious spaces all over the world. Spaces of opposites, unique ways of enclosure and methods of construction; From the undescribable spatial poetics of the subterranean houses in Santorini to the mystery of the adobe houses in New Mexico and the aetherialilty of the houses in Japan. [...] (From the publisher)

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Preface / Introduction
Acknowledgements
- Artists and Architecture
- The Great Tradition
The Renaissance: Social mobility of the Artists
The house of Raphael by Bramante
The houses of Andrea Mantegna and Giulio Romano in Mantua
The house of Rubens in Antwerp
The Descendents
Urban Princes of the North: Quinten Massys, Jacopo Jordaens, Rembrandt
The house of Albrecht Durer
- Existential Space: From Gallery Paintings to the Open Plan
Gallery Paintings
The Giacometti Studio
The Hotel Room Predicament
Anti-architecturalism and existential space
- Tailored Studios: Artists' houses built by Architects
Overview
From the towns to the Louvre and back to the cities
Cezanne: oppression, wandering, indifference for the architecture of architects
Gauguin: user/architect/builder
Under the Spell of Le Corbusier
The House of Jacques Lipchitz
- Architecture and the Stages of Life:
The house of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo by Juan O'Gorman
The studio of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
House of Braque and Studio of Joan Miro by Jose Luis Sert
- Art Movements and Space:
The private, the public building, and Urban Design
Art Space and the private domain
The Red House of William Morris
Whistler's White House
Artists and Recycling
Richard Norman Shaw, his descendents and due order of credit
The Pioneering role of Artists:
"The Publics Building and Urban Design
Artist/Architects Cross fertilization and the New Public building commencing as Art Space
- The Austrian Secession
Artist' housing as urban precedent
General framework and the Pioneering role of France
Individual habitat: Paris studios
Communal predicament: La Ruche
Apartment Dwellers
Evolution of the "Studio" apartment
The "Studio apartment in New York"
The Tenth Street Studio Building
Studio Apartments in New York
Plain apartment dwellers
- Interior Ambience: From Pastel tones to white
The studio of Vermeer
The Japanese Influence through Vermeer
Ambiance of white
The white of Malevich
From Canary Yellow to all white:
The Whistler/Stieglitz/O'Keeffe predicament
Artist/Architects
Juan O'Gorman
Le Corbusier
Alvar Aalto
Artists, Art Space and Architecture
Matisse
Barnett Newman
Delacroix and architecture
Gustave Courbet