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An Approach to the Figure and Aesthetic Ideas of Alexander J. Kostellow
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- Title: An Approach to the Figure and Aesthetic Ideas of Alexander J. Kostellow: Plastic Artist and Industrial Design Education Pioneer
- Author(s): Jaime Francisco Gómez
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: Design Principles & Practices
- Journal Title: Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review
- Keywords: Abstraction, Art, Art Education, Industrial Design Education, Organic Form, Plastic Recession
- Volume: 4
- Issue: 1
- Date: April 28, 2010
- ISSN: 1833-1874 (Print)
- ISSN: 2473-5736 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/CGP/v04i01/37810
- Citation: Gómez, Jaime Francisco . 2010. "An Approach to the Figure and Aesthetic Ideas of Alexander J. Kostellow: Plastic Artist and Industrial Design Education Pioneer." Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review 4 (1): 33-38. doi:10.18848/1833-1874/CGP/v04i01/37810.
- Extent: 6 pages
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Abstract
At the beginning of the 1930s, the painter and plastic arts educator, Alexander Jusserand Kostellow, developed the theory of what he called the Plastic Recession of Form. The theory addressed the importance of composition elements such as negative space, recession, and surface axis in a given work of art. These aesthetic ideas led him to configure the foundation course for Industrial Design studies and training at the Pratt Institute in the second half of that decade.
