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Tim Benton has been professor of art history at The Open University since 1970.

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Deco - a style?Used with permission

By Professor Tim Benton (The Open University)

02 June 2006

Tim Benton, explains art deco, which, he says, lurks below the surface of all the arts in the 1920s and 1930s, like original sin. "It...  Read more : Deco - a style?

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Benton, Tim (2012). Art Deco and Japonisme. In: Brown, Kendall H. ed. Deco Japan: Shaping Modern Culture 1920-1945. Alexandria, VA, USA: Art Services International, pp. 25–34.

Benton, Tim (2010). Review: Pride in modesty: modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy by Michelangelo Sabatino. Harvard Design Magazine, 33 pp. 141–144.

Benton, Tim (2010). Le Corbusier e il vernacolare: Le Sextant a Les Mathes 1935. In: Canziani, Andrea ed. Le Case per artisti sull'Isola Comacina. Quaderni fondation montandon. Como: NodoLibri, pp. 22–43.

Benton, Tim (2010). Il concorso per il Palazzo del Littorio. In: Reichlin, Bruno and Tedeschi, Letizia eds. Luigi Moretti Razionalismo e trasgressività tra barocco e informale,. Milan: Electa.

Benton, Tim (2009). The art of the well-tempered lecture: Reyner Banham and Le Corbusier. In: Aynsley, Jeremy and Atkinson, Harriet eds. The Banham Lectures: Essays on Designing the Future. Oxford, UK and New York, USA: Berg, pp. 11–32.

Benton, Tim (2009). New books on Le Corbusier. Journal of Design History, 22(3), pp. 271–284.

Benton, Tim (2009). The Rhetoric of Modernism: Le Corbusier as Lecturer. Basel: Birkhäuser Publications.

Benton, Tim (2008). The complexities and contradicitions of modernism. Positions, 0 pp. 16–21.

Cohen, Jean-Louis and Benton, Tim (2008). Le Corbusier the Great. London/New York: Phaidon.

Benton, Tim (2007). Le Corbusier conférencier. Paris, France: Editions Le Moniteur.

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Tim Benton has been professor of art history at The Open University since 1970. His research interests include Le Corbusier's work of the 1920s and 1930s and the history of modern architecture and design. His book Le Corbusier Conférencier - a study of the rhetorical methods used by Corbusier - was published in French by Editions Le Moniteur (2007) and issued in English by Birkhäuser in 2008.
Along with Charlotte Benton, Tim is the external curator of the former Art Deco show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is currently working on a book on Le Corbusier's domestic architecture (1914-1935).

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