Product Description: The importance of ornament in the emergence and development of abstract art has long been underestimated. Pioneers like Kandinsky and Mondrian looked upon it as a sin in which abstraction should not indulge. Ornament, with its history dating back thousands of years in all world cultures, was secreted in the development of modern nineteenth-century painting, but surreptitiously began to influence abstract art as a formal and methodical element...read more

Product Description: With the museum of the Fondation Beyeler in Rienhen near Basel, Renzo Piano has created a building, in which an exhibition architecture for art is realized. The book presents the building from different perspectives as a new type of museum in an architectural-historical and typological context as well as in its topographic and urban situation; finally, it shows the spatial presentation of the collection...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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