Asger Jorn's writing on art and architecture
ed. by Ruth Baumeister ; translated by Paul Larkin
- Editor(s)
- Ruth Baumeister
- Publication, year
- Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2011
- Scope
- 304 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789064507601
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. Fraternité Avant Tout (above all – unity) is an anthology of Asger Jorn’s writings on art and architecture translated into English for the first time. After more than half a century, his groundbreaking theory on image creation coupled with his Marxist political convictions are strikingly fresh and apposite. Jorn’s writings also shed new light on the origin and development of the Situationist movement’s theory of architecture and urbanism.
- Person as subject
- Asger Jorn
- Location
- Cabinet 32 - 3: Situationisten ; provo
- Extra themes
- Architecture and Art
