Figuraciones de lo pre-moderno: Adolf Loos e Isadora Duncan

Abstract

El texto analiza la presencia de fragmentos griegos en la obra de Adolf Loos y de Isadora Duncan desde la admiración compartida por ambos hacia la antigüedad. La hipótesis que propone el estudio es demostrar que la presencia de lo pre-moderno en Isadora Duncan y Adolf Loos se basa en la recuperación de lo griego desde una lectura de “El nacimiento de la tragedia”, el texto de Friedrich Nietzsche publicado en Leipzig, en 1872, que pasa a ser una referencia para los autores del momento.

The study focuses on the presence of Greek fragments in the work of Adolf Loos and Isadora Duncan based on the same admiration of the antiquity. The hypothesis that the study proposes is to demonstrate that the presence of the pre-modern in Adolf Loos and Isadora Duncan are based on Greek recuperation from a careful reading of “ The birth of the tragedy in the spirit of the music”, one of the best known texts by Friedrich Nietzsche, whose first edition appears in Leipzig, in 1872. Following the programme of Nietzsche, that contemplates the updating of values of the Greek art, Isadora Duncan and Adolf Loos don’t try so much to imitate forms of the past but to make figures emerge that can, again, conform the present. Both authors have in this free reading of what is pre-modern, a basic condition for proposing the foundational recuperation in their respective artistic fields.