Overview
In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances in science that included Einstein's theory of relativity and newly powerful microscopic and telescopic lenses, artists were inspired to expand their artāto capture a new metareality that went beyond human perception into unseen dimensions. In 1936, the Hungarian poet Charles SiratĆ³ authored the Dimensionist Manifesto, signaling a new movement that called on artists to transcend āall the old borders and barriers of the arts.ā The manifesto was the first attempt to systematize the mass of changes that we now call modern art, and was endorsed by an impressive array of artists, including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, CĆ©sar Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan MirĆ³, LĆ”szlĆ³ Moholy-Nagy, Ben Nicholson, Enrico Prampolini, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Dimensionism is the first book in English to explore how these and other āDimensionistsā responded to the scientific breakthroughs of their era.
The book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition, reproduces works by the manifesto's initial endorsers and by such artists as Georges Braque, Joseph Cornell, Helen Lundeberg, Man Ray, Herbert Matter, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Picasso, Kay Sage, Patrick Sullivan, and Dorothea Tanning. It also offers essays by prominent art historians that examine SiratĆ³'s now almost-forgotten text and the artists who searched for a means of expression that obliterated old conceptions and parameters. Appearing for the first time in English is SiratĆ³'s own āHistory of the Dimensionist Manifesto,ā written in 1966. The book brings aa long-forgotten voice and text back into circulation.
Artists
Alexander Archipenko, Jean Arp, Herbert Bayer, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, John Covert, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, CĆ©sar Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Harold Edgerton, Max Ernst, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Wassily Kandinsky, Gerome Kamrowski, Frederick Kann, Helen Lundeberg, Man Ray, AndrĆ© Masson, Roberto Matta, Herbert Matter, Joan MirĆ³, LĆ”szlĆ³ Moholy-Nagy, Henry Moore, Nina Negri, Ben Nicholson, Isamu Noguchi, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Enrico Prampolini, Anton Prinner, Kay Sage, Charles SiratĆ³, Will Henry Stevens, Patrick Sullivan, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning
Copublished with the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
This book title, Dimensionism (Modern Art in the Age of Einstein), ISBN: 9780262038478, by Vanja V. Malloy, David Little, published by MIT Press (October 9, 2018) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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