Wolfgang Paalen was a central figure in internationalist surrealist circles in the late 1930s. Artist and intellectual; he was a European whose fascination with archaic cultures led him finally to Mexico; where he founded the influential magazine DYN in 1941. In the bold texts from DYN that make up Form and Sense; we encounter a unique artistic mind and an oracular voice.Paalenrsquo;s book is an intellectual delight with essays on cubism; surrealism; the universality of forms in architecture; and the relationships that exist between art and science. He weaves together the new ideas and archaic inspirations in twentieth-century painting and sculpture. His nuanced and original considerations of some key figuresmdash;Mondrian; Kandinsky; Picassomdash;marked Paalen in turn as a significant thinker in the world of modern art.This painterrsquo;s book; illustrated with carefully chosen examples of the art he examines; makes us not only understand but also experience the rich interplay between idea and image that informs the art of our own time. A new introduction by the scholar Martica Sawin examines Paalenrsquo;s career; particularly his influential writing on surrealism and abstraction.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Lilliana Ramos-ColladoExcellent arguments; impeccable disposition of articles.
