Tag Archives: oskar schlemmer

hayseeds go back to the country

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Dave

To everything there is a season. And a reason? Its not easy to get at the root causes of Arab world anti-Westernism. it does not seem like a pure hate, but rather the antagonism of the love-hate relationship, like intense … Continue reading →

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from whence she came

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

Intentional crisis that got out of hand? Power grab by Germany and will they serve as the patsy of choice again? It’s a shadowy sort of dance we are witnessing in Europe and for many it doesn’t make sense. The … Continue reading →

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wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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cult of the machine: cataclysms of progress

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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utopia : bauhaus uber alles?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Dave

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 →