THE YEARNING
FOR aesthetic purity had been intensifying on the bohemian fringes of Paris ever since the mid-1830s, when Théophile Gautier railed, in a preface to one of his novels, against the expectation that artists and writers promote the prevailing morality.
Andrea Zittel (b. 1965, United States) investigates the human need for comfort and how it intersects with the modernist desire
for aesthetic purity.
Not exact matches
In a sense it could potentially help re-contextualize a three - dimensional work, but we chose it
for the
purity and elegance it exudes as a unique abstract
aesthetic expression.