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020			_a9781501356018
082			_a709.04 _bTAY
100			_aTaylor, Brandon
245			_aLife of forms in art : modernism, organism, vitality
260			_bBloomsbury Visual Arts, _aLondon : _c2020
300			_axiv, 253 p. ; _bill., (b & w, and col.), _c24 cm
365			_b23.99 _cGBP _d104.20
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWhat 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. In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern art: the organic , the biomorphic , the ambiguous , the monstrous , the dialectical , and the liquid.
650			_aThemes, motives
650			_aForm, Aesthetics
650			_aBenches
650			_aType composition equipment
650			_aMuseum studies
650			_aModern art
650			_aAbstraction creation
650			_aCubism
650			_aDocuments
650			_aFuturism
650			_aIntuitionism
650			_aMonistenbund
650			_aNeo-Plasticism
650			_aProductivism
650			_aSupremation
650			_aVitalism
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