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

• August 31, 2011 • 5 Comments

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

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

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

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

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

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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

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

Theo van Doesburg’s “elementarism” (1930)

• October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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