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Learning from Hollywood
Hans Dieter Schaal
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Description for Learning from Hollywood
Hardcover. Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind. Num Pages: 128 pages, 120 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AM; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 295 x 241 x 15. Weight in Grams: 894.
Text in English & German. Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind. It may be in the cinema that the first time you saw the desert, the Rocky Mountain cliffs, Greenland's glacier mountains and California's sandy beaches. You saw here the Western saloons and Al Capone's ... Read more
Text in English & German. Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind. It may be in the cinema that the first time you saw the desert, the Rocky Mountain cliffs, Greenland's glacier mountains and California's sandy beaches. You saw here the Western saloons and Al Capone's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681345
SKU
V9783936681345
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About Hans Dieter Schaal
Hans Dieter Schaal about his work. Schaal, born in Ulm in 1943, is an architect, landscape designer, stage designer, exhibition designer, and artist. His works, the majority of which have been published by Edition Axel Menges, have found an audience far beyond his home country. The author lives and works near Biberach an der Riss.
Reviews for Learning from Hollywood
Film and architecture are both visual forms, so its great that someone has now thought to tie them together, on the premise that each will aid a better understanding of the other. Schaals clever and linear approach allows the reader to appreciate his observations so that, by the books end, I too had become a willing convert. Screentrade ... Read more