Fraternité avant tout
Subtitle: Asger Jorn's writings on art and architecture, 1938-1957
By: [Asger Jorn] ; edited by Ruth Baumeister ; translated by Paul Larkin
Contributors: Baumeister, Ruth; Larkin, Paul
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9789064507601
Subjects: Philosophy; Art and architecture; Modern Aesthetics
Other titles: Asger Jorn's writings on art and architecture; Situationist movement.
Work titles: Selections
Description: "The Danish artist Asger Jorn is primarily known as a painter who was active in the Høst, Cobra and the Situationist International groups. The numerous leaflets, exhibition catalogues, interviews, articles and books he wrote throughout his entire career attest to his vast literary output and his urge to provoke debate at all social levels."--Back cover.
Notes: Title in French.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from Danish, French, and Swedish.
Table of contents: title: New painting, new architecture (1938); title: On the artistic potential inherent within architecture (1943); title: Architecture is not art (1943); title: Face to face (1944); title: Notes on the way (1945); title: The living essence of the language of form (1946); title: A new form of visual interpretation and its implications (1946); title: Yin/yang (1947); title: Homes for the people or concrete castles in the air (1947); title: Apollo or Dionysus (1947); title: Dreams and reality (1948-1949); title: Urban society or village community (1948); title: What is an ornament? (1948); title: A crooked bough (1949); title: Façade art; title: towards a new architecture (1950); title: The true spirit of poetry (1951); title: Naturalistic architecture-or natural form (1952); title: The inherent potential of mural painting (1952); title: Image and form (1954); title: Against functionalism (1957); title: Form and structure (1956); title: The situationists and automation (1958)