Thursday, May 9, 2019
Blade and Chalice at the Museum
(For other posts on the continuing triumph of entertainment
over truth, see a Log24 search for "Night at the Museum.")
See also yesterday's post When the Men and today's previous post.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Occupy Space
A chess set previously mentioned in this journal—
These chessmen appeared in the weblog Minimalissimo
on Sept. 20, 2010. In Log24 on that date, the issue was
not so much the chessmen as the underlying board.
See "The Unfolding." See also the following from
the Occupy Space gallery in Limerick today—
| C A V E S – Anthony Murphy Solo Exhibition Opening 7 pm Thursday 1st Dec Exhibition 2nd – 22nd Dec 2011 Plato's allegory of the cave describes prisoners, inhabiting the cave since childhood, immobile, facing an interior wall. A large fire burns behind the prisoners, and as people pass this fire their shadows are cast upon the cave's wall, and these shadows of the activity being played out behind the prisoner become the only version of reality that the prisoner knows. C A V E S is an exhibition of three large scale works, each designed to immerse the viewer, and then to confront the audience with a question regarding how far they, as privileged viewers of the shadows and reflections being played out upon the walls, are willing to allow themselves to believe what they know to be a false reality. The works are based on explorations of simple 2D shapes; regular polygons are exploded to create fractured pattern, or layered upon one another until intricate forms emerge, upon which the projections can begin to draw out a third dimension. |
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday September 28, 2009
Symmetry
for Germany
for Germany
See Annals of Aesthetics,
January 13, 2009,
which features the following
example of modernism:
… and for readers of
the Sunday New York Times …
The funereal heart illustrates a review of a book titled Her Fearful Symmetry. The book is set, partly, in London's Highgate Cemetery.
The book's author, Audrey Niffenegger, has stated that her title refers to "the doubling and twinning and opposites" that are "essential to the theme and structure of the book." For examples of doubling, twinning, and opposites that I prefer to Niffenegger's, see this journal's Saturday and Sunday entries.
Fans of the New York Times's cultural coverage may prefer Niffenegger's own art work. They may also enjoy images from the weekend's London Art Book Fair that suggested the rather different sort of book in Saturday's entry.
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Friday January 16, 2009
Academy Award
“Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday.”
“I feel very happy to be a part of Mind Champions Academy.”
— A winner at a chess awards ceremony in India on Monday
John Mortimer, who wrote the TV version of Brideshead Revisited, died today. In his memory:
“Todo lo sé
por el lucero puro
que brilla en
la diadema de la Muerte.“
por el lucero puro
que brilla en
la diadema de la Muerte.“
King’s Moves,
adapted from
a figure by
F. Lanier Graham
Related material:
“Will this be
on the test?“
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Thursday January 15, 2009
Gate
or, Everybody
Comes to Rick’s
(abstract version)
or, Everybody
Comes to Rick’s
(abstract version)
For Mary Gaitskill,
continued from
June 21, 2008:
This minimal art
is the basis of the
chess set image
from Tuesday:
Related images:
“The key is the
cocktail that begins
the proceedings.”
— Brian Harley,
Mate in Two Moves
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday January 13, 2009
Something Traditional —
“German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel is the Charlemagne Prize laureate of 2008…. The prize will be awarded on 1 May, Ascension Day.”
Something Modern —
Previously undescribed in this journal:
| A NOTE BY THE DESIGNER
“The traditional chess set, with its naturalistic images of medieval armies, suggests a game between combatants who enjoy the winning of battles. This chess set, with its articulated images of abstract force, suggests a game between contestants who enjoy the process of thinking.
The primary principle of this design… is that the operating reality or function of each piece– both its value and how it moves– is embodied in a simple self-expressive form….  Design Copyright F. Lanier Graham 1967
— F. Lanier Graham, 1967 |
For those whose tastes in recreation are less rational, there is also the legendary chess set of Charlemagne described in novels by Katherine Neville. (See ART WARS.)
Related material: this journal on the First of May, 2008, the date of last year’s Charlemagne award.
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