Annotated bibliography

Annotated bibliography

Heartney, E. 2008. Art & Today.

• Art and architecture

• - was one of the most conservative art forms
• - stuck to its conventions, from wealth, and structural satiability
• - restricted within budget, zone, safety laws
• - opportunity to stretch their imaginations
• - people called artists rather than architects because they reject rationality for fantasy
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• - started in modernism
• - Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim bilbao
• - Cubists arrangement of curves and planes of glinting titanium steel that gives no hint on the building purpose or internal configuration.

Noble, Richard, 2009, Utopias, critical utopia Documents of contemporary art

• - Dan graham
• - “it begins with minimal art, but its about spectators observing themselves as they are observed by other people”
• - beginning artistic practices. Peformance installation Roll. 2 projections on either side of the wall.
• - Artist rolling around on the floor
• - Views from hand held camera and external view
• - Started his concept of visual angles and surveillance
• - Phenomenological experience
• - Pavilions would later emerge from this concept combining this experience with architectural visual and structural qualities
• - Graham uses self irony anarchic humor allied to the utopian aspiration in his artworks

Brouwer, Marianne, 2001, Dan Graham : works, 1965-2000

• - Hybrid of Functional spaces with a structural object
• - pavilions structural element mirrored the qualities of the modern skyscraper
• - the glass he used was double sided
• - creating a faint fun house effects
• - basic of spatial distinctions are confused
• - unlike architectural buildings his works were not restricted to any particular zone.
• - Environment varied
• - Light and surroundings
• - Resembles different types of architecture

• - Pavilion Influenced by Moon Windows
• - Depending on where you stand the reflection will show a different stage of the moon cycle