From Space in Modern Art to a Spatial Art History
Subtitle: Reassessing Constructivism Through the Publication Circle
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783110594935
Description: This book traces artists' theories of constructive space in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on these concepts and recent theories on space, it develops a methodology termed 'Spatial Art History' that conceives of artworks as physical spatio-temporal things, which produce the social, to overcome the reductive understanding of art as a mere mirror or facilitator of society.