The Life of Forms in Art: Modernism, Organism, Vitality

by Brandon Taylor and Brandon Taylor

Book Overview

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, Mir , Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dal , Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501356011
• ISBN13: 9781501356018
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"