Dimensionism

de David Little, Oliver A. I. Botar

In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances in science that included Einstein's theory of relativity and newly powerful microscopic and telescopic lenses, artists were inspired to expand their art-to capture a new metareality that went beyond human perception into unseen dimensions. In 1936, the Hungarian poet Charles Sirato authored the Dimensionist Manifesto, signaling a new movement that called on artists to transcend "all the old borders and barriers of the arts." The manifesto was the first attempt to systematize the mass of changes that we now call modern art, and was endorsed by an impressive array of artists, including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Cesar Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ben Nicholson, Enrico Prampolini, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. 'Dimensionism' is the first book in English to explore how these and other "Dimensionists" responded to the scientific breakthroughs of their era. 00Exhibition: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, USA (02.11.2018-03.03.2019) / Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, USA (03.-06.2019).