Notre Dame du Haut

In her book The Optical Unconscious, Rosalind Krauss discusses a Jackson Pollock painting in relationship to its position in space. She contends that when a Pollock painting is placed in a horizontal position, that is, on the floor as it was painted, it is a “savage work.” But the moment the canvas is taken off of...

It may sound peculiar and even disrespectful to consider Frank Lloyd Wright’s Temple Beth Sholom and other postwar synagogues and churches under the heading “American Glamour,” yet of all the building types examined in this book, religious architecture offers the fullest and most complex engagement with the cultural values and aesthetic qualities associated with the concept (fig. 123). These include, as noted in the preceding case studies, strong narrative content; a penchant for drama and …