See as well "Up the Trinity Staircase" (yesterday afternoon)
and "British Pottery" (Log24 , December 22, 2018).
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Potter’s Staircase
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On the Night Road to Marfa
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Roberta Smith on Donald Judd’s BY ALEX GREENBERGER February 28, 2020 1:04pm If Minimalist artist Donald Judd is known as a writer at all, it’s likely for one important text— his 1965 essay “Specific Objects,” in which he observed the rise of a new kind of art that collapsed divisions between painting, sculpture, and other mediums. But Judd was a prolific critic, penning shrewd reviews for various publications throughout his career—including ARTnews . With a Judd retrospective going on view this Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, ARTnews asked New York Times co-chief art critic Roberta Smith— who, early in her career, worked for Judd as his assistant— to comment on a few of Judd’s ARTnews reviews. How would she describe his critical style? “In a word,” she said, “great.” . . . . |
And then there is Temple Eight, or Ex Fano Apollinis —
Cicero, In Verrem II. 1. 46 —
He reached Delos. There one night he secretly 46 carried off, from the much-revered sanctuary of Apollo, several ancient and beautiful statues, and had them put on board his own transport. Next day, when the inhabitants of Delos saw their sanc- tuary stripped of its treasures, they were much distressed . . . .
Delum venit. Ibi ex fano Apollinis religiosissimo noctu clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque anti- quissima, eaque in onerariam navem suam conicienda curavit. Postridie cum fanum spoliatum viderent ii qui Delum incolebant, graviter ferebant . . . .
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A Mass for Julia
"I know then that the story is there, buried in what I call
my magma. It’s absolute chaos but the novel is in there,
lost in a mass of dead elements, superfluous scenes
that will disappear or scenes that are repeated several
times from different perspectives, with different characters.
It’s very chaotic and makes sense only to me. But the story
is born under there."
— Mario Vargas Llosa, interviewed in The Paris Review ,
Issue 116, Fall 1990
Vargas Llosa is the author of "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter."
See also a Log24 search for "Seix Barral."
For scriptwriter-related remarks by one Julia Carmel in yesterday's online
New York Times , see an obituary about a Tuesday, Feb. 25, death.
See also Log24 posts from Tuesday, Feb. 25, now tagged Deutsche Schule .
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To and Fro…
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/02/
the-restless-spirit-of-the-enlightenment/
See as well instances of "to and fro" in this journal.
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Friday, February 28, 2020
Up the Trinity Staircase
Or: The Newman Prize Continues.
Freeman Dyson reportedly died today. In memoriam ,
some remarks by Dyson from Hiroshima Day 1979 —
(Click to enlarge.)
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
Deep Space Odyssey
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For Taylor Swift* as Dirk Pitt
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Occult Writings
From the author who in 2001 described "God's fingerprint"
(see the previous post) —
From the same publisher —
From other posts tagged Triskele in this journal —
Other geometry for enthusiasts of the esoteric —
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Monday, November 4, 2019
As Above, So Below*
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
“Perfect”
Usage example —
(Click to enlarge.)
See also the previous post as well as PG(3,2),
Schoolgirl Space, and Tetrahedron vs. Square.
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Blockheads…
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In Memoriam
"Dirk Pitt is a fictional character created by American novelist Clive Cussler
and featured in a series of novels published from 1976 to 2009. Pitt is a
larger-than-life hero reminiscent of pulp magazine icon Doc Savage."
"Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician."
— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here in Two Views of Finite Space.
Author Clive Cussler, who reportedly died Monday at 88 —
“I detested school,” he told Publishers Weekly in 1994.
“I was always the kid who was staring out the window.
While the teacher was lecturing on algebra, I was on
the deck of a pirate ship or in an airplane shooting down
the Red Baron.”
Related material —
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Classics Illustrated
An image I saved on Oct. 26, 2016 —
Related New York Times opinion from that
same date —
"Every political movement in a democracy is
shaped like a pyramid — elite actors on the top,
the masses underneath."
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Masks of the Illuminati:
The Sternheim Portrait (For Harlan Kane)
From last night's 1:01 AM post —
Detail —
This portrait is of German playwright Carl Sternheim.
Steve Martin's version of Sternheim's 1910 play "The Underpants"
reportedly opened on November 3, 2006.
My own interests on that date lay elsewhere . . .
Related abstract art —
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Monday, February 24, 2020
Hidden Figure
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For “Time Cube” Fans
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Sunday, February 23, 2020
The Representation of Reality
"Although art is fundamentally everywhere and always the same,
nevertheless two main human inclinations, diametrically opposed
to each other, appear in its many and varied expressions. ….
The first aims at representing reality objectively, the second subjectively."
— Mondrian, 1936 [Links added.]
An image search today (click to enlarge) —
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Saturday, February 22, 2020
Remembering Speechlessly
"Remembering speechlessly we seek
the great forgotten language . . . ."
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"At the point of convergence by Octavio Paz, translated by Helen Lane
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See also other posts now tagged Transparent Things.
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Friday, February 21, 2020
To and Fro, Back and …
Also on January 27, 2017 . . .
For other appearances of John Hurt here,
see 1984 Cubes.
Update of 12:45 AM Feb. 22 —
A check of later obituaries reveals that Hurt may well
have died on January 25, 2017, not January 27 as above.
Thus the following remarks may be more appropriate:
Not to mention what, why, who, and how.
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
In Memory of Jack Youngerman…
… An abstract artist who reportedly died at 93 yesterday.
A search in this journal for Shubnikov yields…
"Raiders of the Lost Stone" (December 26, 2017).
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Once Upon a Time in Las Vegas
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In Memory of Hunter S. Thompson
“Continue to exercise caution with stories that can only be
corroborated by dead guys."
— Intelligence officer Frank Anderson in the previous post.
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Tale
“Continue to exercise caution with stories that can only be
corroborated by dead guys. Fabricated stories are almost
never made up out of whole cloth, but are made by stitching
together generally known facts with bits of uncheckable fantasy.”
— Intelligence officer Frank Anderson, who reportedly
died on January 27, 2020.
This journal on that date —
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Aitchison’s Octads
The 759 octads of the Steiner system S(5,8,24) are displayed
rather neatly in the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.
A March 9, 2018, construction by Iain Aitchison* pictures the
759 octads on the faces of a cube , with octad elements the
24 edges of a cuboctahedron :
The Curtis octads are related to symmetries of the square.
See my webpage "Geometry of the 4×4 square" from March 2004.
Aitchison's p. 42 slide includes an illustration from that page —
Aitchison's octads are instead related to symmetries of the cube.
Note that essentially the same model as Aitchison's can be pictured
by using, instead of the 24 edges of a cuboctahedron, the 24 outer
faces of subcubes in the eightfold cube .
Image from Christmas Day 2005.
* http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/branched/files/2018/
presentations/Aitchison-Hiroshima-2-2018.pdf.
See also Aitchison in this journal.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
For Rose the Hat
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New Spaces: The Ninth Gate
"Nothing opens up new spaces…."
— Book description from the University of Chicago Press,
shown here on February Ninth, 2020:
See as well the Roman Polanski film "The Ninth Gate" and
an obituary reporting a death on February Ninth.
"… while at the end I didn't yearn for spectacular special effects,
I did wish for spectacular information–something awesome,
not just a fade to white." — Roger Ebert, March 10, 2000
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Monday, February 17, 2020
Universal Beauty
Remarks by Rosalind Krauss in the previous post suggest a look at …
Then there is the universal beauty of oneself :
Jung's Four-Diamond Figure from Aion—
This figure was devised by Jung
to represent the Self.
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