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Asger Jorn (Paperback)
Ruth Baumeister
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This colourfully illustrated book gives a broad introduction to the
life and work of Asger Jorn, one of the most significant
Scandinavian artists. Educated in Paris, he collaborated with
Fernand Leger and Le Corbusier, as well as creating a vast oeuvre
of paintings, prints, tapestries, ceramics, collages and sculpture,
characterised by his constant need to challenge his work and
methods. He was a founding member of various international art
movements, providing theory and narrative on an exquisite
collection of European avant-garde art. This new book presents a
selection of Jorn's key works and also features many original
documents, such as interviews, letters and photographs, as well as
articles by and about Jorn. Arranged in chapters focusing on
crucial moments of his life and works of particular significance
throughout his career, it illustrates the diverse range of his
artistic and literary achievements, and reveals his highly ironic
and prosaic approach to art, politics and philosophy.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of
the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is
arguably most pronounced in the writings and art of the Danish
experimentalist Asger Jorn (1914-1973). Their collaboration on Le
Corbusier's pavilion for the 1937 Paris World Exhibition sparked
Jorn's lifelong fascination with the great architect and with
architecture more broadly as an inherently public form of art. At
the same time, Le Corbusier began revealing his work in visual art
and started to move from a rational, technological approach to
architecture, towards a more poetic, materialist one. Published in
collaboration with the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, What Moves Us?
focuses specifically on the reception of Le Corbusier in
Scandinavia, with the relationship between Jorn and Le Corbusier as
a thematic thread. The book first highlights the architect's change
of direction and subsequently takes readers through his influence
on the young artist. The book's distinguished contributors explore
the relationships that emerged among their artistic theories and
practices, including Jorn's later critique of Le Corbusier.Essays
also explore the wider influence of Le Corbusier on Scandinavian
architecture and urbanisation and consider Le Corbusier alongside
the Danish architect Jorn Oberg Utzon and the Aarhus Brutalism
movement.
Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973) is internationally renowned
for his activities within the CoBrA and the International
Situationist groups. Quite apart from his paintings, prints,
ceramics and sculptures, Jorn produced a remarkable amount of
theoretical work. His ideas are still extremely relevant to
contemporary discourse. However, in contrast to his artistic
oeuvre, Jorn's theoretical arguments have received much less
attention from scholars of architecture, art history or philosophy.
This book for the first time reveals this largely ignored aspect of
Jorn's work. Jorn's opinions and motivations are subsequently
contextualized within the theoretical debate of his time and are
linked in the book to examples of built architecture, which
influenced and informed his conception of architecture and
urbanism. His position regarding the relationship between
architecture and art encompasses a harsh critique of modern
architecture. By developing the concept of an "Architecture
Sauvage," a notion coined by Guy Debord many years later, Asger
Jorn tries to map out a series of perspectives for the way modern
architecture can help to create a pleasing and dynamic everyday
environment for human beings.
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