{"product_id":"warped-space-art-architecture-and-anxiety-in-modern-culture-9780262720410","title":"Warped Space: Art  Architecture  and Anxiety in Modern Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century. Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century  followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I  phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts  in particular the spatial arts of architecture  urbanism  and film. This \"spatial warping\" is now being reshaped by digitalization and virtual reality. Anthony Vidler is concerned with two forms of warped space. The first  a psychological space  is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty but full of disturbing forms  including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler 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. Focusing on current conditions of displacement and placelessness  he examines ways in which contemporary artists and architects have produced new forms of spatial warping. The discussion ranges from theorists such as Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists such as Vito Acconci  Mike Kelley  Martha Rosler  and Rachel Whiteread. Finally  Vidler looks at the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry  Coop Himmelblau  Daniel Libeskind  Greg Lynn  Morphosis  and Eric Owen Moss in the light of new digital techniques that  while relying on traditional perspective  have radically transformed the composition  production  and experienceperhaps even the subject itselfof architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647621357621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262720418","price":31.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262720410.jpg?v=1781696334","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/warped-space-art-architecture-and-anxiety-in-modern-culture-9780262720410","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}