The Aesthetics of the Modern World

The Aesthetics of the Modern World

This Sunday, we’ll talk about how avant-garde artists shaped a new image of modern society at the beginning of the 20th century, and we’ll discuss:

• Can art depict “nothing”?

• What makes the Black Square so iconic?

• How did Vladimir Tatlin revolutionize sculpture?

• Did Piet Mondrian really manage to systematize “everything we know and feel, and extinguish the great conflicts of our lives” through “the purest of all forms of abstract art”?

• How did the Bauhaus school create the aesthetic vision of modernist architecture, which became dominant in the urban landscape of the 20th century?

The lecture will be given by Vadim Nasledov, PhD in History, lecturer, and educator.