Brazilian art critic Mário Pedrosa’s theorization of art’s affective power, whereby the relational contract with spectator is neither rational nor purely visual but infused feeling, was decisive for understandings geometric abstraction as expressive in 1950s. “Toward a Common Configurative Impulse” turns to another modernism, nestled alongside ones that would come define aesthetic artists assoc...

Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home? Over the course of the past century no other room has been the focus of such intensive aesthetic and technological innovation, or as loaded with cultural significance. Kitchen design has been both a central concern of modernism and fundamental to our concept of modern life (Mo...

This article explores the possibility of a spiritual Islam in West as viable alternative to traditionalist and political Islam. It looks at capabilities limitations two French Muslim voices, Abdennour Bidar Éric Geoffroy, who are most vocal intellectuals favor France. A careful examination their writings reveals that post-modernism, secularism, religious freedom all support spread However, beca...