"Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as 'mass art', they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing 'mass art'. In this work author Nadir Lahiji proposes that the philosophical understanding...

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1. Verfasser:	Lahiji, Nadir 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	McGowan, Todd 1967- (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Schlagworte:	Benjamin, Walter > 1892-1940 Badiou, Alain > 1937- Ästhetik Architekturtheorie Pädagogik Film Architektur Philosophie Architecture / Philosophy Architecture / Political aspects
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Zusammenfassung:	"Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as 'mass art', they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing 'mass art'. In this work author Nadir Lahiji proposes that the philosophical understanding of the collective human sensorium in the apparatus of perception must once again find its true training ground in architecture. Building art puts the collective mass in a position of 'expert critic', who identifies themselves with the technical apparatus. Only then can architecture regain its status as 'mass art' and, as the book contends, only then can it resume its function as the only 'artform' that is designed for the political pedagogy of masses, which originally belonged to it in modernity before the invention of cinema"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (page 157-163) and index
Beschreibung:	xxii, 168 Seiten
ISBN:	9780367762810 9780367762827