Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Butin, Hubertus
2. Hagner, Michael
3. Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin, sponsor.

Description

1. 16 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded), 24 pages : illustrations; 35 cm

Summary

1. In his book 'Ornament Stadt', the Austrian artist Herbert Stattler transferred 16 designs of ideal cities into precise pencil drawings. Urban utopias from the Renaissance to the 20th century are reproduced by Stattler again and again, until the ideal city is multiplied into an ornament: fans and concentric circles, repeating bubbles and dispersing stars. In the detail however, in the movement of the pencil that repeats the original, there is a liveliness that counteracts the "big plan" in a congenial way. The design of the book draws on portfolios used by urban planners and draftsmen. The pages are folded in a way that the drawings appear in their original size. Only at closer inspection does it become apparent that they are drawn in pencil. The line is not always perfect, and in consequence the drawing departs from the utopias of those architects who believed in perfect ideals of the city.

Alternative title

1. Herbert Stattler, Ornament Stadt
2. Herbert Stattler, Stadtleitbilder
3. Stadtleitbilder

Subject

1. Artists' books
2. Urbanization
3. Art and architecture
4. Urbanization > In art
5. Artists' books > Germany > 21st century
6. Art, Austrian > 21st century
7. Stattler, Herbert

Genre/Form

1. Artists' books – Germany – 21st century.

Call number

1. MEMZ+ (Stattler) 15-3965

Note

1. Plates also called Stadtleitbilder and consist of folded prints of 16 drawings (originals: pencil on paper, 120 x 100 cm).
2. Accompanying essays tipped in.

Language (note)

1. Text in German with English translations.

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, 9 May - 4 July 2014.

Author

1. Stattler, Herbert, artist.

Title

1. Ornament Stadt / Herbert Stattler ; texts: Hubertus Butin, Michael Hagner.

Publisher

1. Leipzig : Spector Books, [2014]

Edition

1. 1. Auflage.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Language

1. Text in German with English translations.

Exhibitions

1. Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, 9 May - 4 July 2014.

Local note

1. Edition of 500 copies.
2. Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Added author

1. Butin, Hubertus, writer of supplementary textual content.
2. Hagner, Michael, writer of supplementary textual content.
3. Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin, sponsor.

Added title page title

1. Herbert Stattler, Stadtleitbilder
2. Stadtleitbilder

ISBN

1. 9783944669403
2. 3944669401

Research call number

1. MEMZ+ (Stattler) 15-3965