Warped Space
Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture
Anthony Vidler

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Author(s)

Anthony Vidler

Publication, year

Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2000

Scope

301 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

026222061X

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This book traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin.

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Person as subject

Vito Acconci, Rachel Whiteread, Mike Kelley, ...[et al.]

Location

Cabinet 19 - 4: Architectuur en onbehagen

Extra themes

Architecture and Art, Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.