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What Moves Us?: Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in Art and Architecture
Ruth Baumeister (Ed.)
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Hardback. Featuring new and previously unpublished material, this is an examination of Le Corbusier's influence in Scandinavia, and how his work was received there. The connection between Asger Jorn and Le Corbusier, and their work, is also investigated in detail. Editor(s): Baumeister, Ruth. Num Pages: 210 pages, 189 colour, 69 b&w. BIC Classification: 1DN; AGB; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 220. .
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is arguably most pronounced in the writings and art of the Danish experimentalist Asger Jorn (1914-1973). Their collaboration on Le Corbusier's pavilion for the 1937 Paris World Exhibition sparked Jorn's lifelong fascination with the great architect and with architecture more broadly as an inherently public form of art. At the same time, Le Corbusier began revealing his work in visual art and started to move from a rational, technological approach to architecture, towards a more poetic, materialist one. Published in ... Read more
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is arguably most pronounced in the writings and art of the Danish experimentalist Asger Jorn (1914-1973). Their collaboration on Le Corbusier's pavilion for the 1937 Paris World Exhibition sparked Jorn's lifelong fascination with the great architect and with architecture more broadly as an inherently public form of art. At the same time, Le Corbusier began revealing his work in visual art and started to move from a rational, technological approach to architecture, towards a more poetic, materialist one. Published in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1272g
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783858817730
SKU
V9783858817730
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About Ruth Baumeister (Ed.)
Ruth Baumeister is a writer and architect and a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Delft University of Technology. She is the author of Asger Jorn in Images, Words and Forms, also published by Scheidegger and Spiess.
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