Mother of Beauty
Note on Modernism by Steven H. Cullinane
By THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
Published: April 7, 2004
LOS ANGELES, April 6 (AP) --
Pierre Koenig, a Modernist
architect
whose design for projects called Case Studies Nos. 21 and
22
became a famous emblems of postwar domestic architecture,
died here on
Sunday [Palm Sunday, April 4,
2004]. He was 78.
From the Taschen
Books site,
a picture of a Koenig house,
Case Study No. 22,
for
Palm Sunday:
Julius Shulman
"In Case Study House No. 22,
captured by Julius
Schulman,
Pierre Koenig used all of Los Angeles
as part of his
architectural composition."
-- New York Times, April 7, 2004
"If buildings were people, those in Julius
Shulman's
photographs would be Grace Kelly:
classically elegant, intriguingly
remote."
-- Art News, New York, quoted at Taschen site
This page's title is from a Wallace Stevens poem,
It is also the title of a book by Mark Turner,
Death is the Mother of Beauty:
Mind,
Metaphor, Criticism
For related material on Stevens and Grace
Kelly,
see a
journal entry of March 31, 2004.
For comments on related work
by Turner, see
a
review by Alan Richardson.
For my own notes on Turner, see
Cognitive Blending.
I associate Turner with, appropriately,
a
religious symbol.
From a March 3, 2004, entry:
The following religious icon is
an
example of a Turner
The Jewel
in Venn's Lotus.
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