Name: Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy (en Inglés)
SKU: 54371832
Price: 29630.00 CLP
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Author: Van Den Broeck, Charlotte ; McKay, David
ISBN: 9781635423174

portada Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy (en Inglés)

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Traducido por

David McKay

Editorial

Other Press (NY)

Autor

Van Den Broeck, Charlotte ; McKay, David

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.3x14.7x3.3 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781635423174

Categorías

Artistas, monografías sobre arte
Fotógrafos individuales
Arquitectos y estudios de arquitectura
Historia de la arquitectura
Biografía: general
Sociología de la muerte y el morir
Psicología

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy (en Inglés)

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A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor--the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure--through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects--architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the author's hometown. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to art history, stories from her own life, and popular culture, Van den Broeck brings patterns into focus as she asks, What is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator? Threaded through each story is the author's meditation on the question of suicide--what Albert Camus called the "one truly serious philosophical problem"--in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking ground in literary nonfiction, as well as providing solace and consolation to anyone who has ever attempted a creative act.