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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
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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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walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between
Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading
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Tagged alice cooper, Antonin Artaud, boris lurie, cy twombley, david tudor, dyslexia, jaakko hintikka, Jan van Eyck, Jasper Johns, john denver, Josef Albers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, Robert Rauschenberg, Walter Gropius, William Butler Yeats
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fathers and sons: leaving traces
It was a school that combined crafts and fine arts, and conceptually followed a basic idea that mass-production was reconcilable with individual artistic spirit. Founded at Weimar in 1919, Bauhaus concepts of art were particularly influenced by Modernism. That is, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Clement Greenberg, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Stephane Mallarme, t.lux feininger, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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Innocent magic
Paul Klee had the kind of innocent magic that could evoke a wistful human face from the simplest of geometric forms. In “Senecio” he does it with circles for head and eyes, a straight line to suggest a nose, and … Continue reading
good vibrations: still cool after all these years
From the Bauhaus to your house… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the pantheon of graphic design professionals, there are very very few who have reached the levels occupied by Ivan Chermayeff. He’s considered one of the grand masters of 20th century … Continue reading
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Tagged 23 envelope, Bauhaus Art, bauhaus design, Chris Burden, david carson, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, genesis p. orridge, Ivan Chermayeff, Jamie Reid, phase 2, Pushpin design, pushpin studios, robert brownjohn, Robert Williams, survival research laboratories, tom geismar, von dutch, Walter Gropius
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a tangible mansion in the imagination: knock before entering
Architecture has long had deep roots in the imagination. Creating fantastical structures, magnificent dwellings, and phantom cities , painters have always been drawn to erecting a dream architecture of the improbable and often psychologically revealing buildings. Certainly, architecture and psychoanalysis … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Carl Jung, Chagall, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio de Chirico, Jeremy Blake, Kay Sage, M.C. Escher, Mies van der Rohe, Nikolaus Peysner, Philip Johnson, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole art, Walter Gropius, Wilhelm Pinder, Yves Tanguay
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