For the College Arts Association review page, Luis Camillo Osorio responds to Irene Small’s recent title, The Organic Line. Click here to read the review. Click here to learn more about the book. An excerpt appears below:

“The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism, by Irene V. Small, has the ambition and potential to become a classic. Its starting point is the inflection forged by the work of Lygia Clark on the history of modernism, and its guiding thread is the discovery of the “organic line” in the mid-1950s. This line, which appears wherever two monochromatic planes juxtaposed on the same surface meet, transforms void into breath. Its discovery opened a whole realm of artistic possibilities, which Clark unfolded in her extensive experimentations. What this book explores are the countless reverberations of this organic line.”