The Architectural Unconscious: James Casebere and Glen
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Book Description
The Architectural Unconscious brings together two contemporary artists who address similar issues in architecture-architecture as sculpture, as site, and as image-in very different ways. James Casebere is known for the black and white and monochromatic color photographs he makes using small-scale tabletop models. These models are then subtly lit and photographed to create disconcerting, archetypal spaces reminiscent of prisons, monasteries, tunnels, and factories. The work of Glen Seator recreates architectonic forms-offices, facades-based on already existing buildings; lifted out of context, the works provoke a sense of dislocation, causing viewers to reconsider the social use of the original site, as well as the space in which the work is displayed. This visual diary places these two innovators and their works in dialogue through notes, sketches, plans, snapshots, and related works, as well as images of the final pieces.
About the Author
James Casebere was born in 1953 in Lansing, Michigan, and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Casebere has exhibited internationally and his work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of Art and the Laurent Delay Gallery in England. In addition, he has been commissioned to produce many public projects, among them the University of Washington in Seattle and the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in New York.
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