Formas de vida

• Collection: Ad Litteram
  
• Author: Nicolas Bourriaud
  
• Year: 2009
  
• Format: 15,2 × 22,9 × 1,1 cm; 149 p.
  
• Binding: TAPA BLANDA
  
• ISBN: 978-84-96898-51-6
  
• Price: 18 € (TAX incl.)
  
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What if modernism was not really what we believed it to be? In this book, Nicolas Bourriaud uses art, literature, philosophy, film, economy and the history of technology to outline a genealogy of modernism which accepts neither the wake of the anti-modernist movements nor so-called progressive modernism. The moral imperative of this forgotten modernism would be to turn life itself into a work of art. From Brummel to Michel Foucault, from alchemy to the Dada movement, from Baudelaire to Fluxus, not forgetting Raymond Hains and Guy Debord, Formas de vida offers a portrait of the artist as pre-Socratic philosopher; in other words, a resistance fighter holding out against the division of work and a militant defender of the lost oneness of everyday life.