Développement et crise de la spatialité géométrique
Development and crisis of geometric spatiality

Questions of geography and abstraction

Summary/Abstract: The ultimate objective of Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevitch was to realise an abstract utopia in the sense of autonomous and balanced spatialisation. The development of geometrical spatiality on a large scale gave rise instead to a situation which is not connected to the empirical conditions and contradictions that make up the urban and social environment. This situation is challenged by Richard Serra and Peter Halley, who see it as a concrete abstraction.

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