International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus
- International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus
The International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus was a small European avant-garde artistic tendency that arose out of the breakup of COBRA, and was initiated by contact between former COBRA member Asger Jorn and Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo of the Nuclear Art Movement. [ [http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ass/pata.htm The Assault On Culture book by Stewart Home chapter on College of Pataphysics, Nuclear Art, IMIB ] ]
Timeline
*December 1953: Asger Jorn writes to Enrico Baj: "... a Swiss architect, Max Bill, has undertaken to restructure the Bauhaus where Klee and Kandinsky taught. He wishes to make an academy without painting, without research into the imagination, fantasy, signs, symbols - all he wants is technical instruction. In the name of experimental artists I intend to create an International Movement For An Imaginist Bauhaus"."
*1954: Jorn finds a copy of "Potlatch", the information bulletin of the Lettrist International at Baj's house. He then contacts Andre-Frank Connord, who puts him in contact with Guy Debord and Michèle Bernstein.
*29 September 1955: IMIB was founded in Alba, Piedmont, Italy by Asger Jorn, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, and Piero Simondo.
*July 1956: One issue of "Eristica", the journal edited by Piero Simondo, appears.
*28 July 1957: IMIB fused with the Lettrist International and the London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International. Enrico Baj was excluded from this process.
References
External links
* [http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/bauhaus.htm Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus]
* [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html Situationist Chronology]
* [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/imib.html Documents by Jorn on the formation and theory of the IMIB]
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