The Life of Forms in Art Modernism, Organism, Vitality

The Life of Forms in Art: Modernism, Organism, Vitality by Brandon Taylor
2020 | ISBN: 1501353918, 1501356011 | English | 272 pages | EPUB/PDF | 17/12 MB
What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of 'living' form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves.