Marc Quinn, Sphinx 2005 - references Greek culture with marble
"sculpture sculpted and twisted by own desire"
Avant-Garde, style is angular. 1974 typeface refers to 1920s era.
Claude Henri de Saint-Simon - first use of avant-garde/van garde. 1825 - community with big ideas on politics and science.
Avant-garde is a military metaphor, applied to art it refers to social and political struggle.
Reason rather than religion or emotion gives you truth - 1650 - 1790 - age of enlightenment
The Age of Revolutions and Romanticism 1789 - 1848. Triangle position symbolizes pushing forwards.
Russian Revolution 1917
Industrial Revolution
Great Exhibition 1851
First Photograph 1826
Darwin Origin of the Species 1859
Tree diagrams --> Isotypes
