The first wave of Modernism as an artisticumbrella movementbroke in the first decade or two of the 20th Century, with ground-breaking works by people likeArthur SchoenbergandIgor Stravinskyin music;Gustav Klimt,Pablo Picasso,Henri Matisse,Marcel Duchamp,Wassily KandinskyandPiet Mondrianin art;Le Corb...
Jorn's polemic with the Swiss architect Max Bill about the resurrection of Bauhaus ideals in the mid‑fifties also led to a series of articles collected in the book Pour la forme in 1957. Here the main point of contention was whether the craft ideals or those of artists like Klee and ...
philosophy of art into the 20 th century. To this effect, we shall explore the position of influential philosophers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Marx and Emerson, but also analyze the role played by the Arts and Craft movement in England, which sought to rehabilitate the skill ...
architecture are consumed by the same very ambitious pursuit: attending to the “construction” of the human subject, its space, its needs, and first and foremost, its dreams. The notion of modernity will thus be our point of departure. We shall read excerpt from Hegel and Marx, and ...
Bachelard’s argument here has strong parallels with the genetic epistemology of the psychologist (and Bachelard’s contemporary) Jean Piaget (1970), for whom knowledge was also social, practical and grounded in action, and never individualistic or purely cognitive in a representational-symbolic sense...