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2020. Exhibition Art Monograph (2018-2019 Le Corbusier). Lovely copy. Very Good. Hardcover. No markings to interior text or illustrations. No jacket as issued, decorative cover, VG. Binding solid, square. Color. 183pp. 9.5" x 11". Scheidegger and Spiess, 2020. Photos are of item you will receive.Ships from the US, quickly and with care.- Giuliana Altea & Antonella Camarda's 2020 monograph explores Le Corbusier's modernist painting, sculpture & architecture. Illustrated art book highlights Costantino Nivola's collection, United Nations work & European modernism. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Le Corbusier saw himself as much a visual artist as an architect. Yet his work as an accomplished painter and sculptor has only recently begun to be fully understood and appreciated. Sardinian sculptor Costantino Nivola met Le Corbusier in 1946 in New York City. "Corbu" was collaborating with Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer on the United Nations Headquarters, while Nivola had been living there in exile since 1939. Their encounter marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship. The architect would come to share the artist's Greenwich Village studio while working on the United Nations Headquarters, and he also created two murals in the kitchen of Nivola's East Hampton home in the 1950s.

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Le Corbusier saw himself as much a visual artist as an architect. Yet his work as an accomplished painter and sculptor has only recently begun to be fully understood and appreciated. Sardinian sculptor Costantino Nivola met Le Corbusier in 1946 in New York City. "Corbu" was collaborating with Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer on the United Nations Headquarters, while Nivola had been living there in exile since 1939. Their encounter marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship. The architect would come to share the artist's Greenwich Village studio while working on the United Nations Headquarters, and he also created two murals in the kitchen of Nivola's East Hampton home in the 1950s.

 

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