Le Corbusier et les arts dits primitifs. Voyages bis Haremheb und ihrer Zeitgenossen

bis Haremheb und ihrer Zeitgenossen

leur être au monde se fait enchantement

- deep down - a little unconfessed vice

Lenormant of the Institute on Egyptian coins 96-98 Revillout

Le Corbusier et les arts dits primitifs. Voyages bis Haremheb und ihrer ZeitgenossenLe Corbusier's profound relationship with a selection of non European art objects constitutes a largely ignored aspect of his world. And yet, the leader of modern architecture has always designed, published, exhibited and collected "so called primitive arts", according to the clear sighted formulation he has been using since 1935. Several African and Asian sculpted forms, which for him belong to "the most fertile periods of invention", thus run