19 feb 2012

THE SYMPATHY OF THINGS

The Sympathy of Things. Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
Lars Spuybroek
V2_ - NAi Publishers, 2011

"Tenemos que encontrar nuestro camino de regreso a la belleza", escribe Lars Spuybroek en la introducción de The Sympathy of Things. Spuybroek sostiene que hay que "deshacer" el siglo XX -la era del minimalismo, la abstracción y los genocidios. Esto le lleva a la visión estética del crítico de arte inglés del siglo XIX John Ruskin, de la que destila indicadores de nuestro tiempo. |‘We have to find our way back to beauty,’ writes Lars Spuybroek in the introduction to The Sympathy of Things. In this book Spuybroek argues that we must ‘undo’ the twentieth century – the age of minimalism, abstraction and genocides. This leads him to the aesthetical insight of the nineteenth-century English art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for our time.