Designing UNESCO (Record no. 758)
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| fixed length control field | 02001 a2200265 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 1138262129 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250317100357.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250312042016GB eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781138262126 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 52.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | AGA |
| Source | thema |
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| Subject category code | ABA |
| Source | thema |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | AC |
| Source | bic |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | ABA |
| Source | bic |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | ART015000 |
| Source | bisac |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | 720.9443610904 |
| Source | bisac |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Christopher E.M. Pearson |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Designing UNESCO |
| Remainder of title | Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20161115 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 412 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | Designing UNESCO: Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century represents the first full-length monograph on the genesis, construction and reception of the Paris headquarters of the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The book traces the long and complex birth of UNESCO's permanent seat from its conception in 1950 to its inauguration in 1958, showing how its history constitutes a unique nexus of modernist practices in twentieth-century international politics, art, architecture and criticism. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished archival material and examining critical reception of the building in the local and international press, Christopher Pearson's analysis operates on formal, structural and theoretical levels, revealing many of the largely unspoken assumptions of modern architecture at mid-century and elucidating the conflicted relation between art and science in the post-war period. The volume also throws new light on many of the major architects and artists of the period, among them Breuer, Gropius, Le Corbusier and Eero Saarinen, as well as Picasso, Moore, Miró, Arp, Calder and Noguchi. Designing UNESCO is a compelling and original account of one of the most important, yet under-appreciated, buildings of twentieth-century modernism. |
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