Futurs - Matisse, Miro, Calder...

Publisher: Musées de Marseille
Year of publication: 2015
ISBN: 978-2-7118-6288-7
Language: French

Product features:
208 pp
153 images
Paperback with flaps

Description:
In the 20th century, the advent of science and its influence on industry, technology, architecture and means of transport inspired many artists and opened up their imaginations. By way of anticipation and evasion, artistic representations convey a visionary aesthetic, imagining what the future could be or what the present could have been.

The exhibition reflects artists' interest in innovations in architecture, robotics and space imagery. It takes us on a journey of ascent through three seminal literary and cinematic titles, from the utopian city in Metropolis, to the robotized world of War of the Worlds, to the cosmic escape of Space Odyssey.

Featuring some one hundred works, the exhibition traces the links and influences between art and science, literature and cinema, between reality and fiction, through the major artistic movements of the 20th century.