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Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

Van Den Broeck, Charlotte
McKay, David

Hardcover

ArtistsDeath & DyingArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 1635423171
ISBN13: 9781635423174
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor--the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure--through the stories of thirteen tragic architects.

In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects--architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the author's hometown. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to art history, stories from her own life, and popular culture, Van den Broeck brings patterns into focus as she asks, What is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator?

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