What Moves Us? : Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in Art and Architecture (English)

Ruth Baumeister (ed)

ISBN 10: 3858817732 / ISBN 13: 9783858817730

Published by Scheidegger & Spiess, 2016

About this Item

Z : 22 x 28 cm, 210 pages, 164 color and 76 b/w illustrations - Le Corbusiers influence and reception in Scandinavia and his connection with Danish artist Asger Jorn.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1618819587710

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Moves Us? : Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in Art and Architecture (English)
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858817732
• ISBN 13: 9783858817730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunst im 20.Jahrhundert
  • Architektur
  • Painting

About this title

Synopsis

• Examines Le Corbusier's influence and reception in Scandinavia
• Investigates in detail the connection between Asger Jorn and Le Corbusier and relations between their work
• Features much new and previously unpublished material
• Richly illustrated

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 towards a more poetic, materialist approach to architecture.

Published in collaboration with the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, What Moves Us? 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 Jørn Oberg Utzon and the Aarhus Brutalism movement.

About the Author

Ruth Baumeister is a Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. She is the author of Asger Jorn in Images, Words and Forms, also published by Scheidegger and Spiess.