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Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber (2008, Knopf)
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “very light wear, former owner's information inside cover”
- ISBN
- 9780375410437
- Book Title
- Corbusier : Alife
- Item Length
- 9.7 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Architecture, History
- Topic
- Europe / France, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Item Weight
- 43.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 848 Pages
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From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints --the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings--a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism--vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Weber writes about Le Corbusier's training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassa . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier's work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about "a marvelous transformation of society," then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Weber writes about Le Corbusier's fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a "pure and guileless soul." She saw him as "irresistibly funny." "What a shame you're an architect!" she wrote. "You'd have made such a good partner!" A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375410430
ISBN-13
9780375410437
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65757646
Product Key Features
Book Title
Corbusier : Alife
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / France, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Architecture, History
Number of Pages
848 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Item Weight
43.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Na1053.J4w39 2008
Reviews
"Weber's admiring biography brings Le Corbusier to life, unraveling many obscure aspects of a man who was famously secretive and, though he wrote some 50 books, divulged very little of himself. . .[Weber] allows Le Corbusier to emerge as a fascinating if flawed human being." -Witold Rybczynski, The New York Times Book Review "Both megalomaniacal and brilliant, Le Corbusier emerges from Weber's mesmerizing pages in all his complexity." - Booklist , starred "Full of provocative insights and welcome surprises." - The New York Times "The deeply felt tribute to Le Corbusier's work is enriched by Weber's engrossing, entertaining portrait of his complex personality." - Kirkus Reviews , starred From the Hardcover edition., "Weber's admiring biography brings Le Corbusier to life, unraveling many obscure aspects of a man who was famously secretive and, though he wrote some 50 books, divulged very little of himself. . .[Weber] allows Le Corbusier to emerge as a fascinating if flawed human being." -Witold Rybczynski,The New York Times Book Review "Both megalomaniacal and brilliant, Le Corbusier emerges from Weber's mesmerizing pages in all his complexity." -Booklist, starred "Full of provocative insights and welcome surprises." -The New York Times "The deeply felt tribute to Le Corbusier's work is enriched by Weber's engrossing, entertaining portrait of his complex personality." -Kirkus Reviews, starred From the Hardcover edition., "Weber's admiring biography brings Le Corbusier to life, unraveling many obscure aspects of a man who was famously secretive and, though he wrote some 50 books, divulged very little of himself. . .[Weber] allows Le Corbusier to emerge as a fascinating if flawed human being." -Witold Rybczynski, The New York Times Book Review "Both megalomaniacal and brilliant, Le Corbusier emerges from Weber's mesmerizing pages in all his complexity." - Booklist , starred "Full of provocative insights and welcome surprises." - The New York Times "The deeply felt tribute to Le Corbusier's work is enriched by Weber's engrossing, entertaining portrait of his complex personality." - Kirkus Reviews , starred, "Weber's admiring biography brings Le Corbusier to life, unraveling many obscure aspects of a man who was famously secretive and, though he wrote some 50 books, divulged very little of himself. . .[Weber] allows Le Corbusier to emerge as a fascinating if flawed human being." -Witold Rybczynski,The New York Times Book Review "Both megalomaniacal and brilliant, Le Corbusier emerges from Weber's mesmerizing pages in all his complexity." -Booklist, starred "Full of provocative insights and welcome surprises." -The New York Times "The deeply felt tribute to Le Corbusier's work is enriched by Weber's engrossing, entertaining portrait of his complex personality." -Kirkus Reviews, starred, "Full of provocative insights and welcome surprises." The New York Times "The deeply felt tribute to Le Corbusier's work is enriched by Weber's engrossing, entertaining portrait of his complex personality." Kirkus Reviews, starred
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
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2008-032654
Dewey Decimal
720.92 B
Dewey Edition
22
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