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HOW TRUTH AND BEAUTY MOVED FROM THE CLASSICAL TO THE
MODERN. FROM ATHENS TO BERLIN TO CHICAGO: FROM THE
ACROPOLIS TO SCHINKEL TO MIES
by
Edward Lifson
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM—THE ARTS)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Edward Lifson
Object Description
| Title | How truth and beauty moved from the classical to the modern |
| Author | Lifson, Edward |
| Author email | ELifson@gmail.com; lifson@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Journalism (Print Journalism) |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-01 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-08-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Page, Ellis Tim |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Anawalt, Sasha Breisch, Kenneth |
| Abstract | This paper examines the influence of German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 - 1841) on a later German architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969). Both worked in Berlin, Mies van der Rohe (known as Mies) worked during the later part of his life in Chicago. Schinkel and Mies believed that "Truth" and "Beauty" should be expressed in architecture. Schinkel was the foremost neoclassical German architect, Mies was a founder of Modernism. This paper shows how many of Schinkel's ideas and forms were absorbed by Mies, transformed and then found their way into Mies’s buildings, urbanism and even his furniture design. Schinkel was informed by the Enlightenment and believed that the right kind of buildings could encourage good citizenship and more cultured individuals. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believed the same, and updated the ideas by using more abstraction and modern materials. |
| Keyword | architecture; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; modernity; modern architecture; Enlightenment |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Berlin; Chicago; Athens |
| Coverage date | 1781/1841; 1886/1969 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2461 |
| Rights | Lifson, Edward |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Lifson-2826 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Lifson-2826.pdf |
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| Full text | HOW TRUTH AND BEAUTY MOVED FROM THE CLASSICAL TO THE MODERN. FROM ATHENS TO BERLIN TO CHICAGO: FROM THE ACROPOLIS TO SCHINKEL TO MIES by Edward Lifson A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM—THE ARTS) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Edward Lifson |
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