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L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925.

Artforum International,  January, 2001  by Rus, Mayer

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In 1918, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (aka Le Corbusier) and the decidedly lesser-known Amedee Ozenfant founded Purism, a movement in architecture and painting that emphasized the geometric order and clarity of urban industrial technology. The basic tenets of Purism were given eloquent expression in the Pavilion de ...

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