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Tag Archives: Mies van der Rohe
war against the arts
Frank Lloyd Wright grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. A lifetime of this mindset gave rise to a predictable and inevitable final result: The Guggenheim museum, a museum that defeats the … Continue reading
in the service of the mythic
Louis Kahn was demonstrably one of the few well known artists on the architectural scene in America who arrived at the moment when America was hungry for a new departure away from the paths laid down and the stature conscious … Continue reading
wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise
A “house for building” is what Walter Gropius called the new school he founded in Germany in 1919. But the Bauhaus was much more than its modest name implies: it was a force that changed the shape of the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged anna freud, Clement Greenberg, georg muche, joost schmidt, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, Paul Klee, Thomas Mann, ulrike muller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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cult of the machine: cataclysms of progress
The distinctive beauty of the ugly. Is ornament unhealthy? A crime? Is a suppression of the decorative a necessity in regulating passion? Bauhaus was, in part, a reaction against the sensuality of art nouveau, the decadence of the curves replaced … Continue reading
utopia : bauhaus uber alles?
The Bauhaus as the end of art as a humanizing activity. Not even the marker of Benjamin’s messianic nihilism. Just the nihilism of barbarous anonymity. A lifeless black hole. Maybe, ultimately, Bauhaus is so anti-kitsch it is kitsch. Is the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ernst neufert, herbert bayer, joost schmidt, kamprad ikea, Le Corbusier, ludwig karl hilberseimer, Martin Heidegger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, otti berger, peter keler bauhaus, Slavoj Zizek, Susan Sontag, Theodore Dalrymple, tom sachs artist, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius
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beggin’ brothers: mystery at the altar
“My monastery descends from the heavens, touching the earth only where it must.” – Le Corbusier. A sacred melancholy. An esthetic hardness at the expense of spirituality. Not much glory here. Little aura of radiance that emanates from god, no … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged alvar aalto, church architecture, corbusier la tourette, couturier church, couturier tourette, famous Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, iannis xenakis, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, religious architecture
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revenge of the mediocre: all hail the chief
The Aryan myth. It started simply enough as an irresoluble issue in comparative linguistics at the the dawn of the Romantic Age. Then, caught between quack science, nationalist fervor, and raw emotion, it transformed itself into a full-fledged theory of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Angelica Kauffmann, emil schiebe, Frederic Spotts, geoffrey wheatcroft, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, hugo hoppener, hugo hoppener fidus, James Young, Leni Riefenstahl, Max Horkheimer, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Wagner, sepp hilz, Theodor Adorno
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