Retrieved from the Mirror

Countless artists in the 20th century celebrated the vision of a “complete renewal of human sensibility” (Marinetti). They hoped that their works would awaken sensitivity in those who see, hear, touch, or participate in any other way. This book focuses on aspects such as identity, self-experience, failure, being thrown into the world and its aftermath, dazzling illusions, initiation, intimacy and distance, symbioses between humans and non-humans, empathy and death, and infinity. In the art of that era, the aim was to strengthen the human element within humanity, alongside sensibility as a source of hope. This modernist ideal knows no common style, only a cultic tradition in which everyone can see themselves reflected. It is these ‘mirror’ that must be examined.