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Fairground TheoryThe Hidden Life and Architecture of the Travelling Fair
Fairground Theory goes behind the scenes of the travelling fair – exploring its design, its atmosphere, and the people and processes that make it happen – in order to develop the first architectural theory of the fair. Even well-known places can be made strange when the fair arrives in town. As visitors to the fair, we are willingly overtaken by the all-round intensity of the environment: …
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Helen ChadwickConstructing Identities Between Art and Architecture
Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, the British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wideranging body of work in a variety of media, which shifted from early institutional and architectural critique to operatic installations, and to photographic projects and sculptures. Stephen Walker looks behind this apparent variety, identifying a consist…
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Gordon Matta-ClarkArt, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism
Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. He worked in the 1970s on the boarders between art and architecture and his diverse practice is often understood as an outright rejection of the tenets of high modernism. Stephen Walker argues instead for the artist's ambivalent relationship with…
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