Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City Is Nature - Hardcover

Carter, Claire C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979893674 ISBN 13: 9780979893674

Publisher: PS Studio/Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019

Synopsis

The richly illustrated catalogue Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City is Nature presents the drawings, sculptures and models the seminal artist and architect produced from 1947 until the mid-1970s--during the richest years of his artistic evolution. These selected works represent Soleri's most creative moments when he was making his artwork and constructing his home-studio, primarily with his own hands. Four chapters by expert historians closely examine Soleri's often-overlooked achievements within the disciplines of design and craft, futurist and utopian architecture, and 1970s theories of consciousness-raising and therapy. The book demonstrates the widespread popular interest and excitement about Soleri's ideas in 1970 and offer a variety of possibilities for the steep decline in his popularity and the resulting lack of historical attention paid to this important artist. Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City Is Nature is the only monograph to analyze Soleri's art and ideas after 2009. Radical new material includes an extensive annotated bibliography, a previously unpublished 1974 interview with the architect and a photographic essay of Soleri's two experimental communities, Cosanti and Arcosanti.

About this title

About the Author:

Claire C. Carter is a curator and writer focused on contemporary visual art, architecture and design. Her many original publications and exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art have received both national and international awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: PS Studio/Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0979893674
• ISBN 13: 9780979893674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236