Au milieu de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Zurich était une enclave où l'art moderne pouvait se réfugier. C'est ainsi que l'art concret, le design et le « style suisse » sont devenus emblématiques de la modernité du pays. Influencés par De Stijl, le constructivisme russe et le Bauhaus, les concrétistes zurichois visaient à transformer la société à travers l'esthétique, le design et l'architecture. Cercle! Carré! Progrès! rassemble les principaux protagonistes de cette scène artistique, à savoir Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg et Richard Paul Lohse ainsi que des précurseurs tels que Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, Theo van Doesburg et Anton Stankowski. Des témoins contemporains, l'artiste Peter Fischli et le commissaire Bice Curiger, ajoutent leurs perspectives uniques. Le volume décrit de manière vivante les liens des concrétistes zurichois avec l'avant-garde européenne, abordant les hostilités, les scandales et leur évolution dans le contexte des bouleversements du XXe siècle.
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Thomas Haemmerli is a Zurich-based director of film documentaries, journalist, and writer.
Brigitte Ulmer is a scholar of history based in Zurich and London who works as a cultural publicist and writer.
The first comprehensive survey of the Zurich Concretists, Switzerland’s legendary Modernist art movement.
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Hardback. Etat : New. They were reviled, ridiculed, and ignored. Today, the Zurich Concretists - along with Dada - are considered the most important art movement originating from Switzerland. Circle! Square! Progress! tells the story of the city's avant-garde movement, which is rooted in the Bauhaus and renewed the formal language of art, shaped design and architecture, and also positioned itself politically. It traces its relations to the heroes of Constructivist-Concrete art, such as Johannes Itten, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Theo van Doesburg, and Georges Vantongerloo, and looks at the influences that came from graphic art and advertising, jazz music and dance, colour theory, and mathematics.Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, and Richard Paul Lohse - a group incidentally thrown together rather than true conspirators - formed the centre of gravity of a milieu that wrestled with critics, institutions, and authorities. Lavishly illustrated, the book explores Zurich as the habitat of highly gifted people engaged in lively debates at bohemian cafés, drifting in jazz clubs, celebrating excessively at the legendary annual artists' fancy dress ball, achieving fame and artistic triumphs with creative power and a sense of mission. It illuminates the Zurich Concretists' successes of the 1960s, their at times extremely violent quarrels of the 1970s, and their disputes about the beauty of form. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9783039421640
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. The Zurich Concretists: from difficult beginnings and struggles to triumphs and arrival in Switzerland's art establishment. They were reviled, ridiculed, and ignored. Today, the Zurich Concretists - along with Dada - are considered the most important art movement originating from Switzerland. Circle! Square! Progress! tells the story of the city's avant-garde movement, which is rooted in the Bauhaus and renewed the formal language of art, shaped design and architecture, and also positioned itself politically. It traces its relations to the heroes of ConstructivistConcrete art, such as Johannes Itten, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Theo van Doesburg, and Georges Vantongerloo, and looks at the influences that came from graphic art and advertising, jazz music and dance, colour theory, and mathematics. Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, and Richard Paul Lohse - a group incidentally thrown together rather than true conspirators - formed the centre of gravity of a milieu that wrestled with critics, institutions, and authorities. Lavishly illustrated, the book explores Zurich as the habitat of highly gifted people engaged in lively debates at bohemian cafes, drifting in jazz clubs, celebrating excessively at the legendary annual artists' fancy dress ball, achieving fame and artistic triumphs with creative power and a sense of mission. It illuminates the Zurich Concretists' successes of the 1960s, their at times extremely violent quarrels of the 1970s, and their disputes about the beauty of form. AUTHORS: Thomas Haemmerli is a Zurich-based director of film documentaries, journalist, and writer. Brigitte Ulmer is a scholar of history based in Zurich and London who works as a cultural publicist and writer. SELLING POINTS: . The first comprehensive survey of the Zurich Concretists, Switzerland's legendary Modernist art movement . Explores the Zurich Concretists' roots in the Bauhaus and their relations to the art theories of Theo van Doesburg, Johannes Itten, and Piet Mondrian, as well as influences from mathematics and music . Traces the struggles of the Zurich avant-garde of the 1930s and 1940s against the anti-modernism of the period . Lavishly illustrated with key works by all artists that belonged to the movement and with rich material from archives, some of which is previously unpublished 246 colour, 15 b/w illustrations The first comprehensive survey of the Zurich Concretists, Switzerlands legendary Modernist art movement. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783039421640
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