Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City Is Nature

By Claire C Carter

The richly illustrated catalogue Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City is Nature presents the drawings, sculptures and models the seminal artist and architect produced from 1947 until the mid-1970s--during the richest years of his artistic evolution. These selected works represent Soleri's most creative moments when he was making his artwork and constructing his home-studio, primarily with his own hands. Four chapters by expert historians closely examine Soleri's often-overlooked achievements within the disciplines of design and craft, futurist and utopian architecture, and 1970s theories of consciousness-raising and therapy. The book demonstrates the widespread popular interest and excitement about Soleri's ideas in 1970 and offer a variety of possibilities for the steep decline in his popularity and the resulting lack of historical attention paid to this important artist. Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City Is Nature is the only monograph to analyze Soleri's art and ideas after 2009. Radical new material includes an extensive annotated bibliography, a previously unpublished 1974 interview with the architect and a photographic essay of Soleri's two experimental communities, Cosanti and Arcosanti.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979893674
• ISBN13: 9780979893674
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: PS Studio/Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary A
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 13.3" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 13 years and up