The Life Of Forms In Art Brandon Taylor by Brandon Taylor 9781501353918, 1501353918 instant download after payment.

What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? 

“Brandon Taylor's remarkable study of the pervasive impact of vitalist concepts of “aesthetic monism” on the interwar avant-garde is an important and timely contribution that greatly enriches our understanding of the art and culture of this complex era.” - Mark Antliff, Anne Murnick Cogan Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University, USA

In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of 'living' form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves.

In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern: the organic, the biomorphic, the ambiguous, the monstrous, the dialectical, and the liquid.