{"product_id":"piranesi-and-the-modern-age-hardcover","title":"Piranesi and the Modern Age - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor Plahte Tschudi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complex appropriation of Piranesi by modern literature, photography, art, film, and architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe etchings of the Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) have long mesmerized viewers. But, as Victor Plahte Tschudi shows, artists and writers of the modern era found in these works--Piranesi's visions of contradictory space, endless vistas, and self-perpetuating architecture--a formulation of the modern. In \u003ci\u003ePiranesi and the Modern Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Tschudi explores the complex appropriation and continual rediscoveries of Piranesi by modern literature, photography, art, film, and architecture. Tracing the ways that the modern age constructed itself and its origin through Piranesi across genres, he shows, for example, how Piranesi's work formulates the ideas of \"contrast\" in photography, \"abstraction\" in painting and \"montage\" in cinema. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePiranesi's modern-day comeback, Tschudi argues, relied on new dimensions found within his work that inspired attempts to inscribe within them a world that was very modern. For more than a century, these interpretations have helped legitimize new forms, theories, technologies, and movements. Tschudi examines, among other things, how Piranesi's disturbing prison interiors--the \u003ci\u003eCarceri\u003c\/i\u003e--became modern metaphors for the mind; how Alfred H. Barr and the Museum of Modern Art made the case for Piranesi's alleged abstraction in the 1930s; and how Sergei Eisenstein reinvented Piranesi as a progenitor of his own innovative filmmaking techniques. Tschudi's exploration of Piranesi's influence on modern architectural discourse includes interviews with such distinguished architects as Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Steven Holl, and Rem Koolhaas. Generously illustrated, \u003ci\u003ePiranesi and the Modern Age\u003c\/i\u003e offers an entirely new reading of Piranesi's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Plahte Tschudi is Professor in Architectural History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the author of \u003ci\u003eBaroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e. He curated the 2022 exhibition \"Piranesi and the Modern Age\" at the National Museum of Norway. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.9 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765946155296,"sku":"9780262047173","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7d234cd13c0677818d79db5d6a3745cb.webp?v=1780283264","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/piranesi-and-the-modern-age-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}