Yesterday’s Tomorrows
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By creating “conversions” between the past and the present, these artists look into the future through various media. Paulette Phillips examines architect Eileen Gray’s villa E-1027; Austrian Dorit Margreiter, one of John Lautner’s houses; Spanish-born American artist Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House; British artist Simon Starling, the lamps of Danish designer Poul Henningsen; Scottish artist Toby Paterson, Basil Spence’s British Pavilion for Expo 67; Arni Haraldsson, Ernö Goldfinger’s buildings; Tobias Putrih, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic spheres; Canadian artist David Tomas, a house designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein; Nairy Baghramian, furniture designer Janette Laverrière; and Canadian artist John Massey, a house designed by his father, Hart Massey.
- Author(s):
- Lesley Johnstone, Philip Ursprung
- Publisher(s):
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
- Year:
- 2010
- ISBN:
- 978-2-551-23939-9
- Format:
- 156 pp 27 x 23 cm softcover
- Language(s):
- French/English
