1 The new formalism came to dominate, however briefly, one medium after another, from painting through sculpture to photography and architecture.² No medium except those that, by convention, necessarily had "a story to tell" was immune to formalism's invasion and even these, including the novel and the new medium of cinema, did not go completely unscathed. Formalism did not play itself out in exactly the same way in all media. However, what is remarkable is that, from Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee in painting, to Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe in architecture, early 20th century formalism transcended the differences between media and can be characterized by a few basic ideas." /> Form and function in the molecularization of biology - Sarkar Sahotra | sdvig press