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Icons of Architecture: The 20th Century
Edited by Sabine Thiel-Siling
Prestel, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1998.
191 pp., cloth.
ISBN 3-7913-1949-3.
Icons of Photography: The 20th Century
Edited by Peter Stepan
Prestel, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1999.
200 pp., cloth.
ISBN 3-7913-2001-7.
Icons of Design: The 20th Century
Edited by Volker Albus, et al.
Prestel, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2000.
184 pp., cloth.
ISBN 3-7913-2306-7.
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens, 2022 X Avenue, Dysart , IA 52224-9767, U.S.A. E-mail: ballast@netins.net
These are three titles in an on-going series of volumes about pivotal, classic achievements in art, architecture and design within the past century. Consistent in size, length and illustrative richness, each volume has been edited by one or more experts on the subject, with written contributions by a team of distinguished scholars. The term that most aptly describes them may be "pictorial chronologies," in the sense that each consists of a time-ordered sequence of two-page spreads, which feature reproductions of about 100 groundbreaking objects (buildings, photographs, industrial products), along with brief critical essays and a timeline of the life and work of the originator of each, among them such familiar names as Marianne Brandt, Raymond Loewy, AndrÚ Kertesz, Berenice Abbott, Kenzo Tange, and Adolf Loos. Illustrated by hundreds of photographs, drawings and portrait photographs, these are rich and accessible volumes that have both the breadth and the detail of an encylopedic bird's-eye-view of Modernism.
(Reprinted by permission from Ballast Quarterly Review 16, No. 3, Spring 2001.)
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