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What moves us? : Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in art and architecture

Title: What moves us? : Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in art and architecture / Ruth Baumeister.
Publication: Zürich : Scheidegger und Spiess, c2015.

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210 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

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 collaboration with the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, this book focuses specifically on the reception of Le Corbusier in Scandinavia, with the relationship between Jorn and Le Corbusier as a thematic thread. The book first highlights the architect's change of direction and subsequently takes readers through his influence on the young artist. The book's distinguished contributors explore the relationships that emerged among their artistic theories and practices, including Jorn's later critique of Le Corbusier. Essays also explore the wider influence of Le Corbusier on Scandinavian architecture and urbanisation and consider Le Corbusier alongside the Danish architect Jorn Oberg Utzon and the Aarhus Brutalism movement. Exhibition: Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark (12.09.15 - 13.12.2015).

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Catalog of an exhibition.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 16-1299

ISBN

9783858817730
3858817732

LCCN

2016411426

OCLC

YBP 2016411426

Title

What moves us? : Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in art and architecture / Ruth Baumeister.

Publisher

Zürich : Scheidegger und Spiess, c2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Baumeister, Ruth, editor.

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-1299

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