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Jun 27, 2021

Luis Barragán: a ‘Quiet’ Architectural Revolution

Emotive architecture — this is how the oeuvre of Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902–1988) is often described. His works epitomize the syncretic tendency of Latin American modernisms to integrate local and traditional forms with European and North American artistic influences. Barragan’s attitude towards spatial distribution is sometimes discussed as a…

Mexican Architecture

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Luis Barragán: a ‘Quiet’ Architectural Revolution
Luis Barragán: a ‘Quiet’ Architectural Revolution
Mexican Architecture

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Feb 13, 2021

Cultural Subversions: the Case of the Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was a revolutionary postwar group, founded in 1957 by French Marxist philosopher and filmmaker Guy Debord and Danish artist Asger Jorn. Operating primarily in Paris, the SI was a truly international organization within the scope of Europe and North Africa, which developed a critique of late…

Avant Garde

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Cultural Subversions: the Case of the Situationist International
Cultural Subversions: the Case of the Situationist International
Avant Garde

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Jan 13, 2021

Alberto Giacometti and the Human Condition: Between Being and Nothingness

The Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti has entered the art historical canon as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. Primarily active in Paris, Giacometti’s early work was conceived under the sign of Surrealism. It centred on the repressed subconscious, enigmatic subject matter, sexuality and aggression. Nevertheless, the…

Giacometti

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Alberto Giacometti and the Human Condition: Between Being and Nothingness
Alberto Giacometti and the Human Condition: Between Being and Nothingness
Giacometti

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Dec 24, 2020

Inverting Sacrality: León Ferarri’s Rejection of a World with Hell

Leon Ferrari is the only twentieth century artist who dedicated a major part of his artistic oeuvre to deconstructing the relationship between the Christian notion of Hell and human violence. His work opposes the tendency of understanding the post-war era as a period of desacralisation and predominant secularism. Examining the…

Leon Ferrari

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Inverting Sacrality: León Ferarri’s Rejection of a World with Hell
Inverting Sacrality: León Ferarri’s Rejection of a World with Hell
Leon Ferrari

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Aug 27, 2020

Joaquín Sorolla: Light for Art’s Sake or How the Sun Became Paint

‘Light is the life of everything it touches’. These words were the guiding principle of the oeuvre of the Spanish luminist painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), whose prolific artistic output is paradigmatic of the varying modernist tendencies of fin-de-siecle Europe. Luminism in itself, a term often criticized by art…

Sorolla

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Joaquín Sorolla: Light for Art’s Sake or How the Sun Became Paint
Joaquín Sorolla: Light for Art’s Sake or How the Sun Became Paint
Sorolla

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Jul 11, 2020

Esotericism and Spirituality: the Magical Art of Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo (1908–1963) was a Spanish-born Surrealist painter who, similarly to a number of twentieth century artists, did not abandon the search for spirituality at a time of immense theological crisis. Her most famous works were created during the 50s and 60s — after she moved to Mexico — resulting…

Remedios Varo

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Esotericism and Spirituality: the Magical Art of Remedios Varo
Esotericism and Spirituality: the Magical Art of Remedios Varo
Remedios Varo

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Jul 3, 2020

The politics of performance art in Bulgaria 1987–1997

The politics of performance art in Bulgaria 1987–1997 Performance art and its use of the body may have been a well-known artistic medium and a cornerstone of Postmodernism in the West ever since the 1960s. However, it was thirty years later, during the Bulgarian transition to democracy, when it originated…

Performance Art

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The politics of performance art in Bulgaria 1987–1997
The politics of performance art in Bulgaria 1987–1997
Performance Art

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Rada Georgieva

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Art History and Russian MA student at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

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