Student Research - Art History
Anna Peiffer
The Message of the Machine: Le Corbusier and Warhol: Messengers of Standardization
Abstract: This thesis will examine how the utopian ideals embraced by Le Corbusier in his writings, drawings, and buildings as part of the industrial spirit of mass production, standardization, and repeated unit transform to the rejection of such industrialist spirit as an artistic societal response, as evidenced in the works and philosophies of Pop artist Andy Warhol. Both Le Corbusier and Warhol incorporate disorderly aspects of their respective societies into their works, and this thesis will investigate the intent and the result of these manifestations of societal change through the mass-produced, standardized, repeated unit. While Le Corbusier and Warhol and their respective applications of standardization in artistic works as societal commentary have previously been studied independently, they have not been studied extensively in conjunction with each other. A formerly unexamined relationship is here studied, and new analyses of Le Corbusier and Warhol with respect to their interrelationship are offered.
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