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Futurism: An Anthology

• September 21, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Futurism, modernism, urbanism/city planning

Theo van Doesburg’s “Stuttgart Weißenhof 1927, Die Wohnung: ‘The Dwelling,’ the Famous Werkbund Exhibition” (1927)

• September 13, 2011 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Adolf Loos, Cubism, functionalism, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud, Le Corbusier, Mies van Der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, Walter Gropius, Weissenhof

Amédée Ozenfant’s The Fundamentals of Art (1929)

• August 31, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: Amedee Ozenfant, avant-garde architecture, engineering, machine aesthetic, Purism

Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant’s “Purism” (1921)

• August 31, 2011 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: Amedee Ozenfant, art theory, Le Corbusier, manifestos, modernist architecture, modernist painting, Purism

Kazimir Malevich’s “Painting and the Problem of Architecture” (1928)

• August 29, 2011 • 6 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, art, Constructivism, Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism

Piet Mondrian’s “The Neo-Plastic Architecture of the Future” (1925)

• August 28, 2011 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: architecture, Neo-Plasticism, Piet Mondrian

Aleksei Gan’s Constructivism (1922)

• June 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde

Moisei Ginzburg’s “Results and Prospects” (1927)

• November 3, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural modernism, internationalism, Moisei Ginzburg, Results and Prospects, Soviet avant-garde, Sovremennaia arkhitektura, translation

Walter Gropius’ “Appraisal of the Development of Modern Architecture” (1934)

• October 29, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Adolf Loos, architecture, Auguste Perret, Frank Lloyd Wright, J.J.P. Oud, Le Corbusier, Louis Sullivan, Marinetti, modernism, St. Elia, translation, Walter Gropius

АСНОВА, «Идеологическая-Теоретическая-Методологическая И.Т.М. секция АСНОВА» (1927)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: АСНОВА, Балихин, Докучаев, Кринский, Ладовский, Лисицкий

АСНОВА, «Доклад АСНОВА» (1926 г.)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: АСНОВА, ВХУТЕМАС, Владимир Кринский, Лазарь Лисицкий, Николай Докучаев, Николай Красильников, Николай Ладовский, доклад

Walter Gropius’ The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (1925)

• October 28, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural pedagogy, Bauhaus, Bauhaus Dessau, functionalism, industrialization, modernism, new architecture, standardization, translation, Walter Gropius

Karel Teige’s “Mundaneum” (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, architecture, Constructivism, functionalism, Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, modernism, Mundaneum, Otto Wagner, translation

Le Corbusier’s “In Defense of Architecture” (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Aleksandr Vesnin, architecture, controversy, criticism, Hannes Meyer, Ivan Leonidov, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, League of Nations palace, modernism, Mundaneum, translation

El Lissitzky’s The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, city planning, Constructivism, Dokuchaev, El Lissitzky, Ginzburg, Krinskii, Krinsky, Ladovskii, Ladovsky, Lenin, Malevich, psychotechnics, rationalism, reconstruction, Reconstruction of Architecture, Russian modernism, Russian Revolution, Soviet Union, Suprematism, Tatlin, translation, urbanism, Vesnin, VKhUTEIN, VKhUTEMAS

Karel Teige’s Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia (1929)

• October 26, 2010 • 6 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: academicism, Adolf Loos, architecture, architecture and society, Berlage, Brno, Czech modernism, Czech Secession, Czechoslovakia, El Lissitzky, formalism, functionalism, historicism, international constructivism, J.J.P. Oud, Jan Kotera, Jiri Kroha, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, Mies van Der Rohe, modern architecture, Prague, revolution and architecture, revolutionary architecture, translation, van de Velde, Walter Gropius

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Art Criticism” (1930)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, art criticism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, theory, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Two Glass Skyscrapers” (1922)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, glass architecture, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, skyscrapers, translation

Николай Ладовский, «Психотехническая лаборатория архитектуры (в порядке постановки вопроса)» (1926 г.)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural theory, ASNOVA, «Психотехническая лаборатория архитектуры (в порядке постановки вопроса)», Николай Ладовский, modernism, Munsterberg, Nikolai Ladovskii, Nikolai Ladovsky, psychotechnical laboratory, psychotechnics, rationalism

Sigfried Giedion’s “Live Museum” (1929)

• October 24, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: archipenko, El Lissitzky, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Léger, Picasso, Sigfried Giedion, translation

Traugott Schakher’s “El Lissitzky” (1928)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: El Lissitzky, modernism, Russian avant-garde, Russian modernism, translation, Traugott Schakher

Ernő Kállai’s “El Lissitzky” (1924)

• October 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract art, architecture, El Lissitzky, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Prouns, Russian avant-garde, translation, utopia

Ernő Kállai’s “Lissitzky” (1922)

• October 24, 2010 • 4 Comments

The Editors of Blok’s “What Constructivism Is” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: anti-formalism, Blok, construction, Constructivism, editorial statement, functionalism, international constructivism, internationalism, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, translation

Mieczysław Szczuka’s “An Attempt to Explain the Misunderstanding Related to the Public’s Attitude to New Art” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism
Tags: alienation, international constructivism, internationalism, Mieczystaw Szczuka, Mieczysław Szczuka, new art, Polish avant-garde, public reception, translation, urbanism

Henryk Stazewski’s “Untitled Statements on Suprematism and Painting” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, International Constructivism
Tags: Blok, flatness, Henryk Stazewski, internationalism, Lissitzky, Malevich, Polish Constructivism, Suprematism, Tatlin, translation

The Editors of Blok’s “Editorial Statement” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Blok, Constructivism, editorial statement, functionalism, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, translation, utilitarianism, utility

Hans Richter’s “Toward Constructivism” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art movements, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, internationalism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Hans Richter’s “Prague” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism
Tags: Hans Richter, Karel Teige, modernism, Prague, translation

Alfréd Kemény “Abstract Design from Suprematism to the Present” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract design, Alfred Kemeny, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, Elementarism, Kazimir Malevich, modernism, Peri, Piet Mondrian, Suprematism, translation, Vladimir Tatlin

Alfréd Kemény’s “The Dynamic Principle of Cosmic Construction, as Related to the Functional Significance of Constructive Design” (1923)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Alfred Kemeny, architectural avant-garde, architecture, art, Constructivism, cosmic construction, dynamism, functionality, global construction, modernism, translation

Alfréd Kemény’s “Constructivist Art and Péri’s Spatial Constructions” (1923)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract design, Alfréd Kemény. Constructivism, construction, Malevich, Mondrian, Peri, translation

Henryk Berlewi’s “The Arts Abroad” (1922-23)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, Henryk Berlewi, international congress, international constructivism, Lissitzky, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Purism, Suprematism, Tatlin, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Herwarth Walden” (1928)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: albert gleizes, archipenko, august macke, boccioni, campendonk, delaunay, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, feininger, fernand léger, franz marc, herwarth walden, jean metzinger, kandinsky, kirchner, klee, kokoschka, Marc Chagall, memorial, molzahn, nolde, pechstein, schmidt-rottluff, schwitters, translation

Farkas Molnár’s “Life at the Bauhaus” (1925)

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural theory, architecture, Bauhaus, dancing, El Lissitzky, Farkas Molnár, Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, translation, Walter Gropius

Endre Gáspár’s “The Hungarian Activist Movement” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism
Tags: Activism, artistic movements, Endre Gáspár, Hungarian avant-garde, Hungarian modernism, Lajos Kassak, translation

Ernő Kállai’s, Alfréd Kemény’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, and László Péri’s “Manifesto” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Alfred Kemeny, bourgeois, Constructivism, De Stijl, Erno Kallai, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, László Péri, proletkult, revolutionary proletariat, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Correction (To the Attention of De Stijl)” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, Constructivism, De Stijl, dialectics, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, exclusivity of form, Expressionism, Marxism, psycho-physical, socialism, theory of art, translation, utopia

Ernő Kállai’s “Constructivism” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art criticism, Constructivism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Expressionism, modernism, non-objective art, Suprematism, theory of art, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “Picture-Architecture” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture and revolution, global architecture, humanity, Hungarian avant-garde, Lajos Kassak, the bourgeoisie, the proletariat, translation

Ernő Kállai’s (under the pen name Péter Mátyás’) “Lajos Kassák” (1921)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, art, Ernso Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian avant-garde, Lajos Kassak, modernism, translation

Ernő Kállai’s (pseudonym Péter Mátyás’) “Moholy-Nagy” (1921)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: art, Cubism, Dadaism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian avant-garde, Moholy-Nagy, theory of art, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “To the Artists of All Nations!” (1920)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, humanity, internationalism, Lajos Kassak, revolution, the proletariat, translation

Arthur Holitscher’s “Statement” on the Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art, Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art and revolution, Arthur Holitscher, catalogue, modernism, revolutionary art, revolutionary form, Russian exhibition, studio revolutions, theory of art, translation

David Shterenberg’s “Foreword” to the Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art, Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: avant-garde, catalogue, Constructivism, David Shterenerg, David Sterenberg, internationalism, modernism, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation

Branko Ve Poljanski’s “Through the Russian Exhibition” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Rodchenko, Branko Ve Poljanski, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, internationalism, Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Rozanova, Russian avant-garde, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation, Vladimir Tatlin, Zenithism

Alfréd Kemény’s “Notes to the Russian Artists’ Exhibition in Berlin” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Alfred Kemeny, Constructivism, Russian exhibition, Soviet avant-garde, Suprematism, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “The Russian Exhibition in Berlin” (1923)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art criticism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, review, Russian exhibition, Russian Revolution, Suprematism, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “The Russian Exhibit in Berlin” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art criticism, art history, Berlin, Lajos Kassak, review, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation

Adolf Behne’s “On the Russian Exhibition” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Adolf Behne, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Rodchenko, David Sterenberg, El Lissitzky, internationalism, Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Russian exhibition, Suprematism, translation, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky

Paul Westheim’s “The Exhibition of Russian Artists” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Constructivism, exhibition, internationalism, Malevich, Naum Gabo, Paul Westheim, Rodchenko, Russian modernism, Suprematism, Tatlin, translation

De Stijl, “A Short Review of the Proceedings [of the Congress of International Progressive Artists], Followed by the Statements Made by the Artists’ Groups” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, art, Constructivism, De Stijl, El Lissitzky, Expressionism, Gegenstand, Hans Richter, Ilia Ehrenburg, Ilya Ehrenburg, internationalism, Marcel Janco, Novembergruppe, Objet, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Veshch, Viking Eggeling

Lajos Kassák’s, Sándor Barta’s, János Mácza’s, Endre Gáspár’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Ernő Kállai’s, Jolán Simon’s, Lajos Kudlák’s, and Erzsébet Ujvári’s “The Stand Taken by the Vienna MA Group Toward the First Düsseldorf Congress of Progressive Artists” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art exhibition, art movements, avant garde art, avant-garde architecture, Endre Gáspár, Erno Kallai, Erzsébet Ujvári, international congress, internationalism, János Mácza, Jolán Simon, Lajos Kassak, Lajos Kudlák, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, modernism, Sándor Barta, translation

Henryk Berlewi’s “The International Exhibition in Düsseldorf” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Constructivism, De Stijl, Dusseldorf, Henryk Berlewi, International Exhibition, internationalism, Kazimir Malevich, modern art, Russian avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Vladimir Tatlin

Wtadysław Strzemiński, et. al.’s “Communiqué of the Group ‘a.r.’” (1930)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: a.r. group, architecture, artistic manifestoes, declaration, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, translation

Tadeusz Peiper’s “Malevich in Poland” (1927)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Malevich, painting, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, Suprematism, Tadeusz Peiper, translation

Mieczysław Szczuka’s “Funeral of Suprematism” (1927)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Kasimir Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Mieczysław Szczuka, painting, Russian modernism, Suprematism, translation

Mieczysław Szczuka’s “Art and Reality” (1927)

• October 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism
Tags: art and reality, art and society, capitalism, Mieczysław Szczuka, Polish avant-garde, Polish modernism, socialism, theory of art, translation

The Left Front’s “Founding Manifesto” (1929)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: architectural manifestoes, architecture, art movements, artistic manifestoes, Czech modernism, housing, leftism, The Left Front, the minimum dwelling, translation

László Moholy-Nagy’s “Photography Unparalleled” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: aesthetic theory, Bauhaus, camera, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, light, modernism, perspective, photography, photomontage, theory of art, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Painting and Photography” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Durer, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Lissitzky, modernism translation, Neue Sachlichkeit, painting, photography

Willi Baumeister’s, Adolf Behne’s, Max Burchartz’s, Will Grohmann’s, Wassily Kandinsky’s, Lajos Kassák’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Piet Mondrian’s, and Georg Muche’s “Debate on Ernő Kállai’s Article ‘Painting and Photography’” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Adolf Behne, facture, Georg Muche, internationalism, Lajos Kassak, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Max Burchartz, painting, photography, Piet Mondrian, theory of art, translation, Wassily Kandinsky, Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister

Ernő Kállai’s “Reply to the Debate on My Article ‘Painting and Photography’” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: debate, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, facture, modernism, painting, photography, theory of art, translation

Walter Riezler’s “‘Form,’ Photo, and Film” (1929)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, modernism
Tags: Film, modernism, Ten Days that Shook the World, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, translation, Walter Riezler

Marcel Janco’s “Reflections of Cubism” (1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: aesthetics, Braque, Cubism, Marcel Janco, modernism, painting, Picasso, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Art and the General Public” (1929)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: capitalism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, modern art, modernism, reception, the masses, theory of art, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Vision and the Law of Form” (1930)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, form, modernism, theory of art, translation, vision

Walter Dexel’s “Theo van Doesburg” (1931)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, memorial, modernism, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Walter Dexel

Karel Teige’s “Poetism” (1924)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art and life, Constructivism, Czech modernism, Karel Teige, poetism, theory of art, translation

Jindřich Štyrský’s and Toyen’s “Artificialism” (1927-1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: aesthetics, art, artificialism, Czech modernism, Jindrich Styrsky, manifesto, memory, surrealism, theory of art, Toyen, translation

Exerpt from Ernő Kállai’s New Painting in Hungary (1925)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art theory, avant-garde, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian modernism, painting, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “The Twilight of Ideologies” (1925)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture, art and ideology, art theory, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian modernism, isms, modernism, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Architecture” (1924)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, architectural modernism, architectural theory, architecture, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, functionalism, Hungarian modernism, translation

Lajos Kassák’s “Back to the Workbench” (1923)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural theory, architecture, art, art into life, Constructivism, Lajos Kassak, revolution, Soviets, the new man, translation

Excerpts from Karel Teige’s “Poetism Manifesto” (1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, modernism
Tags: aesthetics, architectural theory, art theory, avant-garde, Constructivism, Czech modernism, Karel Teige, manifesto, poetism, translation

Jindřich Štyrský’s and Toyen’s “The Poet (Lecture Given on the Occasion of Exhibition Opening)” (1927-1928)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art theory, artificialism, Czech modernism, Jindrich Styrsky, modernism, painting, the poet, Toyen, translation

Tadeusz Peiper’s “At the Bauhaus” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract art, aesthetics, functionalism, internationalism, Kazimir Malevich, Lissitzky, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, Tadeusz Peiper, translation, Walter Gropius

Karel Teige’s “Ten Years of the Bauhaus” (1929-1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, De Stijl, Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Exerpts from Ernő Kállai’s “Ten Years of Bauhaus” (1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, art criticism, Bauhaus, Erno Kallai, functionalism, Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, style, translation, Walter Gropius

Kurt Ewald’s “The Beauty of Machines” (1925-6)

• October 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism
Tags: aesthetics, architecture, art, Beauty of Machines, design, functionalism, Kant, Kurt Ewald, mechanicism, technical beauty, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Hans Arp’s, and Ivan Puni’s “A Call for an Elementarist Art” (1921)

• October 20, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: A Call for Elementarist Art, De Stijl, Elementarism, Hans Arp, Ivan Puni, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, manifesto, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Elemental Formation” (1923)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: architecture, art, avant-garde, Elementarism, G, internationalism, modernism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Hans Richter’s G (1924)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, Constructivism, G, Hans Richter, modernism, translation

Karel Teige’s “Constructivism and the Liquidation of ‘Art’” (1925)

• October 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: anti-art, architectural theory, art theory, Constructivism, Czech modernism, functionality, internationalism, Karel Teige, translation, utility

Walter Riezler’s “The Purpose and Concept of Technical Beauty” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, functionalism, modernism
Tags: aesthetics, architectural theory, architecture, art criticism, design, functionalism, technical beauty, translation, Walter Riezler

Gerrit Rietveld, “Utility, Construction: (Beauty, Art)” (1927)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, Bolland, De Stijl, Gerrit Rietveld, Tagore, translation

Georg Muche’s “Fine Art and Industrial Form” (1926)

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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, design, fine art, Georg Muche, industrialization, modernism, translation

Walter Curt Behrendt’s “The State of the Arts and Crafts” (1925-6)

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Tags: architecture, arts and crafts, design, functionalism, industrialization, mechanization, modernism, translation, Walter Curt Behrendt

Theo van Doesburg’s “elementarism” (1930)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, art theory, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Elementarism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart’s “incomparable mechanization” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, mechanization, the machine, translation

Cornelis van Eesteren’s “Ten years of ‘Stijl.’ Art, Technique, and Town Planning” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 3 Comments

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Tags: architecture, art, city planning, Cornelis van Eesteren, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, town planning, translation, urbanism

Theo van Doesburg “De Stijl, Jubilee Number” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, reflection, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg “Painting and Sculpture: Elementarism (Fragment of a Manifesto)” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, Dutch Modernism. De Stijl, Elementarism, Neoplasticism, painting, Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg’s “Painting: From Composition to Counter-Composition” (1925)

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Tags: art, counter-composition, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, painting, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “No Axiom but the Plastic” (1923)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: art, avant-garde, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Neoplasticism, Piet Mondrian, theory, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “Is Painting Secondary to Architecture?” (1923)

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Tags: architecture, art, Neoplasticism, painting, Piet Mondrian, theory, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “From the New Aesthetic to its Material Realization”

• October 18, 2010 • 4 Comments

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“De Stijl 1917-1922 and Its Movement in: Painting — Architecture — Sculpture — Monumental Art — Music — Literature — Anti-Philosophy — Mechanism — Objects-Dance” (1922)

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Tags: 1922, architecture, art, collectivism, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, internationalism, modernism

Theo van Doesburg’s “Against Imitative Artists”

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Tags: art, artistic theory, Dutch modernism, imitation, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “The Realization of Neoplasticism in the Distant Future and in Architecture Today: Architecture, Conceived as Our Total [Non-Natural] Environment” (1922)

• October 18, 2010 • 5 Comments

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Neoplasticism, Piet Mondrian, translation

De Stijl Group, “Manifesto III: Towards a New World Plasticism”

• October 18, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: 1921, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, internationalism, manifesto, modernism, plasticism

Theo van Doesburg’s “On looking at New Painting” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: abstract art, aesthetics, Dutch modernism, painting, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “A Dialogue on Neoplasticism”

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Tags: abstract art, dialog, dialogue, Dutch modernism, modern art, Neo-Plasticism, painting, Piet Mondrian, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Thought — Perception — Plasticism” (1918)

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Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, modernism, perception, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s “The Determinate and the Indeterminate (Supplement)” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, determinacy, Dutch modernism, Neo-Plasticism, Piet Mondrian, translation

Theo van Doesburg “Notes on Monumental Art with Reference to Two Fragments of a Building (Hall in Holiday Center at Noordwijkerhout)” (1918)

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, monumental art, Neo-Plasticism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Piet Mondrian’s Neoplasticism in Painting (1917-1918)

• October 17, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: abstract art, Cezanne, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, history, Holland, modernism, Neo-Plasticism, painting, Piet Mondrian, translation, Van Gogh

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