Victoria M. Young

Saint John's Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space

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Produktbeschreibung

Victoria M. Young is professor of modern architectural history and chair of the art history department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work is featured in Casabella and Saint John’s at 150: A Portrait of This Place Called Collegeville, and she is curator of the exhibition permanently installed in Frank Gehry’s Winton Guest House at St. Thomas’s campus in Owatonna, Minnesota.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 226mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 962g
• ISBN-13: 9780816676163
• ISBN-10: 081667616X
• Artikelnr.: 40814703

Autorenporträt

Victoria M. Young is professor of modern architectural history and chair of the art history department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work is featured in Casabella and Saint John’s at 150: A Portrait of This Place Called Collegeville, and she is curator of the exhibition permanently installed in Frank Gehry’s Winton Guest House at St. Thomas’s campus in Owatonna, Minnesota.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bricks and Brothers: Establishing the Benedictines in Collegeville
2. The Twelve Apostles: Selecting the Architect
3. Building the Spiritual Axis: Breuer and the Benedictines Design a Modern
Catholic Church
4. A Ministry of Art: The Decorative Program of the Abbey Church
Conclusion: A Modern Liturgical Design for the Ages
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index