Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 19441962

List of contents

Introduction
1. Le Corbusier’s "Épopée Plastique" and French Nation Building
2. Art as Social Service: Groupe Espace and French Technocratic Culture
3. Experimental Desire: Asger Jorn and the Network of "Free Artists"
Conclusion

About the author

Nicola Pezolet received a PhD from the History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture programme at MIT in 2013. He is currently Professor in the Art History Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Summary

In 1944 Le Corbusier predicted the coming of a redemptive synthesis of the arts. This book is a scholarly introduction in English to overlooked debates on modernism, abstraction and the synthesis of the arts in mid-twentieth century France.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Pezolet, Nicola (Concordia University Pezolet
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367501990
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50199-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; The arts: general issues, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ARCHITECTURE / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, History and Archaeology, Civil engineering, surveying and building, The arts: general topics