An ambiguous portrait and evocative rendition of Clive Entwistle's life, the artist's grandfather and architect. Halfway between biography and monograph, this publication reaches beyond these genres to resemble an artist's book of poetry and prose fiction.
In
Please send this book to my mother, artist Sarah Entwistle dismantles the traditional form of the architectural monograph and artist biography. In 2011, the astounding personal effects of her grandfather, architect Clive Entwistle (1916–1976), emerged from a Manhattan storeroom. This book welds together original text fragments and extensive visual material from the collection and Clive Entwistle's years in Paris, London, Tangiers, and New York.
Clive Entwistle described his cardinal points as: Philosophy, Architecture, Intellect, and Sex. He was an autodidact whose unconsolidated practice tackled utopian city plans, product design, structural engineering, formal experimentation, and architectural critique. The one-time translator and collaborator of
Le Corbusier, Entwistle's proposal for the Crystal Palace (1946) was described by Corbusier as, “one of the great projects of our time.” However, none of his ambitious proposals was realized, and Entwistle's presence was largely erased from the landscape of modernism.
Published on the occasion of Sarah Entwistle's solo exhibition “He was my father and I an atom destined to grow into him”, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, from October 23 to December 6, 2015.
Sarah Entwistle is an
architect, academic, and visual artist based in London. She is the 2014 recipient of the Le Corbusier Foundation Grant for Visual Artists.
Edited by Ariella Yedgar.
Graphic design: Antonio de Luca Studio.
published in November 2015
English edition
15,5 x 23,5 cm (hardcover)
176 pages (168 color ill.)
ISBN : 978-3-95679-153-6
EAN : 9783956791536
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