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From Space in Modern Art to a Spatial Art History

Reassessing Constructivism through the Publication "Circle" (1937)
By:Jutta Vinzent
Publisher:De Gruyter
Print ISBN:9783110594935
eText ISBN:9783110592733
Edition:1
Copyright:2020
Format:Reflowable

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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.