Tagged: LE CORBUSIER

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THE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHER

That should never be part of the title of a book about Le Corbusier. But nevertheless, there it is. The full title, Le Corbusier, The Secret Photographer, was published in 2013. In 2012 at...

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PAINTING DIMENSIONALIZATION

These pages have taken many directions. Yet one that I keep coming back to is using the oil paintings of Le Corbusier and Picasso as generators for my Transparent Drawings.  Let’s call this painting...

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NO TRANSPARENT PAINTING

This is the last post on the Rowe and Slutsky essay that we have been following this week. Rowe and Slutsky focus solely on oil painting in their discussion of Literal and Phenomenal transparency....

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THE LESS FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS

We have been following two modernist phenomenons in these pages, the Weisenhof housing estate and Le Corbusier. Put those two together, and we see what Corb built for the housing project. I always find...

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VILLA SAVOYE

Of all of the iconic buildings that I have been bombarded with over the decades, Villa Savoye always seems to be near the top.  Every time that I see an image of this building,...