Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines at the Jewish Museum sheds light on one of the 20th century’s most interesting polymaths

Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines
Curated by Mark Wasiuta
Jewish Museum
1109 5th Avenue and 92nd Street
New York
Through July 28

“We live through correalism. Science, art and philosophy try to make us understand this fact, more and more, deeper and deeper, richer and richer. All our being is conditioned by a consciousness of correalism.” Architect Frederick Kiesler wrote these ethereal words in his 1938 treatise, Correalism Manifesto, a text published relatively not long after Yvan Goll and André Breton released Surrealist Manifesto. 

What’s the difference between surrealism and correalism? I asked myself this question after visiting a retrospective indebted to Kiesler at the Jewish Museum in New York’s Upper East

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