Modern color/modern architecture : Amédée Ozenfant and the genealogy of color in modern architecture / William W. Braham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braham, William W., 1957-

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color in architecture.

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966.

Ozenfant, Amédée.

Ozenfant School of Fine Arts.

Physical Description:

x, 137 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

1 Ozenfant and the genealogy of architectural color 1

2 Education of the eye: Ozenfant, Signac and purple shadows 13

3 Purism and the 'divorce of painting and architecture' 36

4 'Colour solidity': the appearance of architecture 56

5 Modern methods (after the divorce) 77

6 Natural, ornamental, symbolic and therapeutic 90

Appendix Ozenfant in the Architectural Review, 1937 99.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-134) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0754607224

OCLC:

48033010