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Monday, March 16, 2020

The Lindbergh Plot

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:30 am

Philip Roth's 2004 paranoid classic premieres on TV tonight.

I prefer an alternative Lindbergh plot. See Peter  Lindbergh in this  journal.

At right below, a work of art that the fashion photographer  Lindbergh
made when he was young and known as "Sultan."

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Art Space

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Detail of an image in the previous post

This suggests a review of a post on a work of art by fashion photographer
Peter Lindbergh, made when he was younger and known as "Sultan."

The balls in the foreground relate Sultan's work to my own.

Linguistic backstory —

The art space where the pieces by Talman and by Lindbergh
were displayed is Museum Tinguely in Basel.

As the previous post notes, the etymology of "glamour" (as in
fashion photography) has been linked to "grammar" (as in 
George Steiner's Grammars of Creation ). A sculpture by 
Tinguely (fancifully representing Heidegger) adorns one edition
of Grammars .

Yale University Press, 2001:

Tinguely, "Martin Heidegger,
Philosopher," sculpture, 1988

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Tinguely Museum

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:01 am

Yale University Press, 2001:

Tinguely, "Martin Heidegger,
Philosopher," sculpture, 1988

See also Talman in this journal.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The Lindbergh Manifesto

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:24 am

"Creation is the birth of something, and
something cannot come from nothing."

— Photographer Peter Lindbergh at his website

From a biography of Lindbergh —

" it took Lindbergh awhile to find his true métier.
Born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1944….
Barely out of his teens, he became a painter who
embraced conceptual art and — for reasons he
has since forgotten — adopted the professional
name « Sultan. »   Lindbergh was a few years
short of his 30th birthday when he turned to
photography."

— "The Man Who Loves Women," by Pamela Young,
Toronto Globe & Mail , September 19, 1996

A Lindbergh work (at right below) from his conceptual-art days —

For a connection between the above work by Paul Talman and the
above "Mono Type 1" of Lindbergh, see…

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

An Artist’s Memorial

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:00 pm

See the above weblog post honoring a Swiss artist‘s
“wit, his perception, his genius, his horizon,
his determination, his humour, his friendship,
and his immeasurable kindness.”

Not a bad sendoff. Contrast with events at Harvard
on the date of the artist’s death.

Related material:  An album cover, and …

See also this  journal in September 2008.

As far as Swiss art goes, I personally prefer the work of, say,
Karl Gerstner and Paul Talman.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Art Wars

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:16 pm

For art collector Herbert Vogel,
who reportedly died today

IMAGE- Herbert Vogel with abstract half-circle art in 1978

Philip Kennicott in The Washington Post , July 3, 2009— 

"The Vogels help allay deep cultural fears
within the art world— fears that art is elitist,
or some kind of confidence game,
or not a serious endeavor (a fear that has
dogged art since at least the time of Plato)."

Some related material from finitegeometry.org,
offered without comment—

IMAGE- 1975 half-circle art by Cullinane based on work in 1960s by Swiss artist Paul Talman

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