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Article: Exhibit traces development of Le Corbusier.
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- February 11, 2003
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NEW YORK, Feb 11, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX)
Who was Le Corbusier and what was his artistic vision before he was Le Corbusier?
That is the intriguing question asked and partially answered by an exhibit of applied arts, architecture, painting and photography produced by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the revolutionary Swiss architect and city planner, in the formative years of his career before he began using the pseudonym Le Corbusier -- a modification of his maternal grandfather's name (Lecorbezier) in 1920.
"Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier," a display of 250 works by Jeanneret (1887-1965) at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies ...