Contemporary Research Analysis Journal

This paper analyzes Pablo Bronstein's drawing which is “The Drawn Clock” as a critical intervention in the discourse surrounding art, architecture, and the political implications of time. It posits that Bronstein's work serves not merely as representation but as an analytical diagram critiquing the Neoclassical clock as a colonial instrument. The paper employed visual and discursive methodologies to examines the clock's formal characteristics through a postcolonial lens, highlighting elements such as the pendulum's axis as a symbol of control and the radial hour markers as vectors of uniform time. The paper concludes that Bronstein's drawing acts as political criticism to reveal colonial time as a socially constructed imposition. The paper finally concurs that, “The Drawn Clock” emerges as a vital meta-diagram, connecting architectural representation with timekeeping technology, and critically addressing the enduring legacies of colonialism.

Drawing, Clock, Pablo Bronstein, Architecture, Diagram of Power, Neoclassical

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