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LAST SEPTEMBER Dan Brady, 24, your average architecture student, was minding his own business, having a nice walk in the park, when he got a phone call telling him that Britain’s most infamous art collector would like to buy his student project “for an undisclosed sum”. Could the collector put it in his next prestigious exhibition at County Hall? And did Brady take cash or cheque? But no, Brady wasn’t daydreaming. It happened. “Only my phone battery was going dead,” he says with a chuckle. “I could only make out this garbledkksshhh someone’s bought kksshhh the piece. It’skksshhh.”
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HDM stocktaking 2004, spring/summer 2004, number 20
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"LA's early moderrns unearths an eclectic community of artists, architects and photographers who pioneered the early Modernist movement in Los Angeles. The book's first essay, by Victoria Dailey, considers closely the work of five key artists--sculptor Peter Krasnow, lithographer Elise Seeds, surrealist and Abstract Expressionist painter Knud Merrild, painter and muralist Henrietta Shore and wood-engraver Paul Landacre. Their work defined Modernism in distinctly Californian terms: as an exploration of nature rather than machine, as a celebration of health and physicality. I was intrigued to learn how these artists found champions in bookseller and art dealer Jake Zeitlin and impresario Merle Armitage. At Zeitlin's bookstore on Hope Street, Arthur Miller reviewed the prints of Paul Landacre for the Los Angeles Times; Armitage designed a series of books to showcase the work of his friends, most notably Edward Weston , the first American photographic monograph of the early modern period; and Carey McWilliams, who went on to become editor of The Nation, co-founded The Primavera Press, a small press devoted to publishing rare classics of California."
"I believe Architecture is art, of course. It’s art, but it’s not sculpture because it’s made for making service to something else.
Architecture is art that you do to shelter something else—a house, a family, a museum, a concert hall. There is always that service. Now, there are different ways to do this. One way is just functional, but I don’t think this is enough because architecture is not just the art of making buildings; it is also the art of telling stories, like other art. It is an art of expression. So one way to make architecture is giving strength to the functional aspect. Another one is, without forgetting the functional aspect, to give strength to poetry, to emotion and poetry. This is where the difference is very subtle."