A set of collages made from mainly contemporary sources, which recount episodes in modernist architecture in the twentieth century. This is a story of a fragile and occasionally noble dream, in the context of a history going violently wrong. These images are supplemented by short parallel prose meditations. Wild’s images have a wonderful rightness of form. But they are far from idealized: politically charged, they have a disconcerting sense of erotics and low humour.

availabilityin print
published1998.04.30
extent112 pp
dimensions276 × 210 mm
illustrations126 colour pictures
bindingsewn & flapped paperback
ISBN0-907259-10-3
ISBN13978-0-907259-10-7
£18.00
Cover of Fragments of utopia

Introduction

The Netherlands: the model republic
USSR: what was to be done
Three continents: Le Corbusier’s utopianism

Bibliography
Acknowledgements

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