From Space in Modern Art to a Spatial Art History

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From Space in Modern Art to a Spatial Art History

Reassessing Constructivism through the Publication "Circle" (1937)

Social and cultural history

Author: Jutta Vinzent

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Collection: SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit

Language: English

Published by: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Published on: 2nd December 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783110592733


This book traces artists’ theories of constructive space in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on these concepts and recent theories on space, it develops a methodology termed ‘Spatial Art History’ that conceives of artworks as physical spatio-temporal things, which produce the social, to overcome the reductive understanding of art as a mere mirror or facilitator of society.

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