Hoover Institution – Policy Review – Art as Manifesto

Posted on 2010-02-3 by Richard Careaga


The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl has written about the Bauhaus student Marcel Breuer that ‘The late furniture sculptor and theoretician Scott Burton declared that Breuer’s club chair, designed in 1925, is at least as important a work of modern art as the ‘Demoiselles d’Avignon.’ Once you have entertained that idea, it’s hard to shake.’ (Burton may be overstating the importance of a particular tubular seat — but still, hard to shake.)

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