Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the Artistic Attitude to LifeThe Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-73), painter, draughtsman, potter and sculptor, was one of the most prominent figures of his generation in Europe. His characteristic paintings were spontaneous, using energetic brushstrokes, splashing and spotting with a wide-ranging palette. He was also a founder member of Cobra (1948-51) and subsequently several other international groupings, which coalesced in 1957 in the setting-up of the Situationist International with French and Italian writers and artists. Fascinated by the philosophical debate on the position of the artist in contemporary life and the artist's relationship to the past, Jorn broke with the Situationist International in 1961 over the issue of whether an artist is an instigator of cultural change or only an instrument of political change. For the next four years, he committed himself to 'a first complete revision of the existing philosophical system' with the intention of placing the artist at the centre. |
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... evolutionary theory of art that is under discussion , and moreover one oriented to Goethe's speculations on light ( influenced by Runge's colour ball ) rather than Newton's ( in which Goethe found still unexplained anomalies ) . Jorn ...
... evolutionary theory of art that is under discussion , and moreover one oriented to Goethe's speculations on light ( influenced by Runge's colour ball ) rather than Newton's ( in which Goethe found still unexplained anomalies ) . Jorn ...
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... evolutionary art theory are characterized as ' Nordic anarchy ' , and Jorn gives many other examples besides that of Swedenborg : As far as Scandinavia is concerned , the artistic inspiration of anarchism was first released through the ...
... evolutionary art theory are characterized as ' Nordic anarchy ' , and Jorn gives many other examples besides that of Swedenborg : As far as Scandinavia is concerned , the artistic inspiration of anarchism was first released through the ...
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... evolutionary stage , superseded and subjugated in its turn . If ' the human being is the lord of creation because we possess the greatest fund of free and disposable energy which can be used arbitrarily as one likes [ sic ] ' , then ...
... evolutionary stage , superseded and subjugated in its turn . If ' the human being is the lord of creation because we possess the greatest fund of free and disposable energy which can be used arbitrarily as one likes [ sic ] ' , then ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The first complete revision of the existing philosophical | 11 |
The Archimedean point | 27 |
Copyright | |
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