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Warped space : art, architecture, and anxiety in modern culture / Anthony Vidler.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : London : MIT, 2002.Description: 300 p. : ill., maps, plans, facsims. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0262720418
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Contents:
Horror Vacui: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Freud -- Agoraphobia: Psychopathologies of Urban Space -- Framing Infinity: Le Corbusier, Ayn Rand, and the Idea of "Ineffable Space" -- Spaces of Passage: The Architecture of Estrangement: Simmel, Kracauser, Benjamin -- Dead End Street: Walter Benjamin and the Space of Distraction -- The Explosion of Space: Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary -- Metropolitan Montage: The City as Film in Kracauer, Benjamin, and Eisenstein -- X Marks the Spot: the Exhaustion of Space at the Scene of the Crime -- Home Alone: Vito Acconci's Public Realm -- Full House: Rachel Whiteread's Postdomestic Casts" -- Lost in Space: Toba Khedoori's Architectural Fragments.
Summary: This work traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal to Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the 19th- and 20th-century theories of spatial alienation/estrangement.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Blue 701 VID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 01560

Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Horror Vacui: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Freud -- Agoraphobia: Psychopathologies of Urban Space -- Framing Infinity: Le Corbusier, Ayn Rand, and the Idea of "Ineffable Space" -- Spaces of Passage: The Architecture of Estrangement: Simmel, Kracauser, Benjamin -- Dead End Street: Walter Benjamin and the Space of Distraction -- The Explosion of Space: Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary -- Metropolitan Montage: The City as Film in Kracauer, Benjamin, and Eisenstein -- X Marks the Spot: the Exhaustion of Space at the Scene of the Crime -- Home Alone: Vito Acconci's Public Realm -- Full House: Rachel Whiteread's Postdomestic Casts" -- Lost in Space: Toba Khedoori's Architectural Fragments.

This work traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal to Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the 19th- and 20th-century theories of spatial alienation/estrangement.