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Article: The genius of Corb in its many manifestations comes to Liverpool.(Le Corbusier )
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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'My friend M. Le Corbusier is an amateur architect and professional painter,' Fernand Leger once remarked. Indeed Paris discovered Le Corbusier, or Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, as he was in 1917, as a painter, when he and Amedee Ozenfant launched an art movement, Purism, in their manifesto Apres Le Cubisme and journal L'Espril Nouveau. That Corbusier was an artist in every pictorial, plastic and tectonic field, is abundantly conveyed in this exhibition. Its three sections Contexts, Privacy and Publicity, and Built Art display a panorama of dazzling achievement in craftwork, drawing, painting, sculpture, furniture. polemics, interiors, architecture, and the design of cities, ...