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L’Esprit Nouveau

review by Le Corbusier and Dermée and Ozenfant

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Le Corbusier

In Le Corbusier: Education and early years
…founded a polemic avant-garde review, L’Esprit Nouveau. Open to the arts and humanities, with brilliant collaborators, it presented ideas in architecture and city planning already expressed by Adolf Loos and Henri van de Velde, fought against the “styles” of the past and against elaborate nonstructural decoration, and defended functionalism.
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Ozenfant

In Amédée Ozenfant
…Corbusier founded the avant-garde review L’Esprit Nouveau, in which they explored the sources and directions of contemporary art. Ozenfant’s definitive work on this subject, the two-volume L’Art, was published in 1928 (translated into English as The Foundations of Modern Art in 1931). From 1931 to 1938 he painted a massive…
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