Chermayeff [Issakovitch], Serge

Powers, Alan

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“…As Alan Powers writes: 'All three principals shared a romantic view of the Mediterranean as the cradle of western culture, and contrasted its timeless values with the shortcomings of the industrialized west.' 70 Ultimately, the Academy enterprise was about a geographical shift in Modernism, back towards the Mediterranean roots which had inspired Le Corbusier and others, away from the Northern European pragmatism which had become dominant. It had political as well as aesthetic implications, its agenda affirming nothing less than Mediterranean Europe's central role in the cultural world.…”

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An Artistic European Utopia at the Abyss of Time: The Mediterranean Academy Project, 1931-34

Heinze-Greenberg¹

2002

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At the beginning of the 1930s three eminent artists, two architects and a painter, became involved in a fascinating project. The architects Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld, from Amsterdam, and Erich Mendelsohn, from Berlin, together with the painter Amédée Ozenfant, from Paris — all three of them in their mid-forties and at the peak of their careers — made plans to found an art academy at the Côte d’Azur. It was an ambitious enterprise, which progressed far beyond the stage of conceptual plans. Potential financial sponsors were secured, an appropriate building plot was bought, and articles of association were passed. Leaflets and booklets presenting information on the school’s exceptional teaching programme were translated into several languages, printed and circulated. Artists of international reputation from all disciplines were enlisted as future teaching staff and an impressive list of well known figures from the fields of science, politics, and the arts joined the advisory committee as members.

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An Artistic European Utopia at the Abyss of Time: The Mediterranean Academy Project, 1931-34

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2002

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An Artistic European Utopia at the Abyss of Time: The Mediterranean Academy Project, 1931-34

An Artistic European Utopia at the Abyss of Time: The Mediterranean Academy Project, 1931-34

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