DESMA 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Piet Mondrian, Vladimir Tatlin, Marcel Duchamp
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L e c t u r e 6. Piet mondrian, composition with red, yellow, blue and. Marcel duchamp, fountain, 1917 (the greatest thing. Americans do is their pluming) ~ modernism con- stantly pushing against ancient theories and standards of beauty. Le corbuiser, villa savoy, 1929 ~ houses as a machine for living, a new way of being in the world. El lissitzky, beat the whites with the red wedge , 1920 (black, red and white) ~ revolutionary propaganda, yet an avant-garde abstract design. Vladimir tatlin, model for the monument to the third. Cinema & mechanization: charlie chaplin, modern times (1936) ~ af nity to the camera movement that disappeared after the introduction of sound. A cinematic movement that critiques and embraces modernism. A self conscious rejection of the past as a representation of the present: modernism. German expressionism: robert wiene, the cabinet of dr. caligari , 1920. One of the greatest horror movies at the time.
