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Book Tower images : visualizing Henry van de Velde's Ghent University Library Tower / edited by Steven Jacobs and Charlotte Dossche.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rijksuniversiteit te Gent. Bibliotheek--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Rijksuniversiteit te Gent.
- Architectural photography--Belgium--Ghent--Exhibitions.
- Architectural photography.
- Velde, Henry van de, 1863-1957--Exhibitions.
- Velde, Henry van de.
- Velde, Henry van de, 1863-1957.
- Rijksuniversiteit te Gent. Bibliotheek.
- Belgium--Ghent.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Visualizing Henry van de Velde's Ghent University Library Tower
- Place of Publication:
- [Ghent] : A&S/Books, 2023.
- Summary:
- The Ghent University library with its famous "Book Tower" was designed by Henry van de Velde in the 1930s. It re-opened recently after a long restoration process under the supervision of Robbrecht en Daem architecten.0Book Tower Images focuses on the rich artistic imagery of the monument. Over the years, leading artists and photographers such as Frans Masereel, Lucien Hervé, Candida Höfer, and Carl De Keyzer have visualized it abundantly. Jan De Cock, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and others realized installations or dance performances in the building that were documented with the help of photographs and films.0Juxtaposing multiple images of the same building, Book Tower Images deals with various models of architectural representation: from typical modernist architectural photographs by Emile Sergysels from the 1940s to recent explorations by Dirk Braeckman, Geert Goiris, Aglaia Konrad, and Walter Vorjohann among many others.0'Book Tower Images' combines architectural photography with a myriad of other artistic and photographic practices such as documentary photography, street photography, fashion shoots, photojournalism, amateur photography, painting, drawing, video, film et cetera - with, of course, the Book Tower as leitmotiv.00Exhibition: Vandenhove - Ghent University, Belgium (20.04. - 17.06.2023).
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Vandenhove Centre for Architecture and Art, Ghent University, Belgium, April 20-June 17, 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789076714691
- 907671469X
- OCLC:
- 1382786778
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