Word: purism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Including suprematism in Russia, purism in France, vorticism in England, futurism in Italy, and constructivism in Russia...
...Jeanneret began to paint too. The two friends published a manifesto called After Cubism-"an optimistic, lyrical song on the beauty and lesson of machines, on buildings for use, and on the part played by science in an art worthy of our time." To spread their new credo of Purism, Jeanneret and Ozenfant started the magazine L'Esprit nouveau. The most important pieces were those on architecture, on which the two editors often collaborated and which Jeanneret signed with an old family name, Le Corbusier, in order to acquire a separate identity as an architect. The articles were...