Search for Form (Classic Reprint): A Fundamental Approach to Art - Couverture souple

Eliel Saarinen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0282446915 ISBN 13 : 9780282446918

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Search for Form

IN the search for form — when sincere and honest — the action is twofold: to create form; and to diagnose the created form. Accordingly, as the artist proceeds with his creation, there simultaneously develops a rationalizing yet unwritten analysis Of the work. This analysis is a personal meditation, characteristic of the individual and therefore independent Of the thoughts Of Others. Nevertheless, the nearer the thoughts Of the individual approach indispensable funda mentals, the closer will they contact the thoughts of Others engaged in the same search. During the many years of my work in the field of art in general and in architecture in particular, I have always tried to approach my problems in accordance with this two fold procedure: through work, and then through an analytic criticism of this work. This analytic criticism has been a natural discipline springing from the work itself — for my self only — and not an intentional systematizing of thought for Others to follow. This dual procedure, I felt, was essential, particularly in my case, as conditions began to spin about myself and my efforts. For those years — from 1894 to 1897 — during which I got my first dope [sic] in Classical architecture, coincided with those very years when it finally became evident that the Classical form after all is not the form to be used for con temporary purpose, but that our time must develop an architectural form Of its own. So was the reasoning in for ward-looking circles — and, for sure, forward-looking circles are the only criterion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0282446915
• ISBN 13: 9780282446918
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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