How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? The author explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F T Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis. He argues that two forms came to dominate modernist art above al...

How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? The author explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F T Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis. He argues that two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine.