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Illustration Credits

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past

Illustration Credits

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Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31758

Illustration Credits

Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, Digital Collections (figs. 1, 2, 10–12, 14, 15, 19, 20–24, 28, 29, 31–36, 42, 43, 57, 59, 61, 62, 70, 71, 77, 78, 80, 81, 83, 87, 88, 90, 94, 97, 99, 100)

Library of Congress / George Grantham Bain Photograph Collection (fig. 8)

Collection Baltrusaitis, Paris (figs. 37–40)

Yale University Art Gallery Archives (figs. 42, 43, 45–48)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Société Anonyme Archive (fig. 44)

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT (figs. 49–51, 54, 55, 58)

North Carolina State Archives (fig. 53)

Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania (fig. 60)

New York Public Library, Life Magazine Digital Archive (fig. 69)

Cranbrook Archives (figs. 73, 74, 76)

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Florence Knoll Bassett papers, 1932–2000 (fig. 75)

The Vogue Archive ProQuest (fig. 84)

Paul Rudolph Papers, Library of Congress (fig. 85)

Turner Brooks, New Haven (fig. 105)

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BOOKUntimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31741

A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture

Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary conversation about the meaning of time and history for modern art and architecture. The group included architects Louis Kahn, Everett Victor Meeks, James Gamble Rogers, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen; artists Anni and Josef Albers; philosopher Paul Weiss; and art historians Henri Focillon, George Kubler, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and Vincent Scully. These figures were unified by their resistance to the idea that, to be considered modern, art and architecture had to be of its time, as well as by the pivotal role that Yale University held as a backdrop to their thinking.

These thinkers sponsored a new kind of approach, one that Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen terms “untimely,” emphasizing a departure from a sequential course of events. Ideas about temporal duration, new tradition, the presence of the past, and the shape of time were among the concepts they explored. With an interdisciplinary focus, Pelkonen reveals previously unexplored connections among key figures of American intellectual and artistic culture at midcentury whose works and words would shape modern architecture.

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Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date July 2023 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300263954

EISBN 9780300278231

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