George Clooney to Matt Damon —
“There’s a Michelangelo joke to be made.”
A search in this journal for Michelangelo suggests . . .
How about “Bach meets Bochner“?
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Saturday October 3, 2009
Related material:
Frame Tales, as well as
The Sacred Day of Kali,
this morning's
New York Times obituaries,
and
Mental Health Month, 2003:
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Thursday June 11, 2009
Geometry for Jews
(continued from Michelangelo’s birthday, 2003)
“Discuss the geometry underlying the above picture.”
Abstraction and the Holocaust (Mark Godfrey, Yale University Press, 2007) describes one approach to such a discussion: Bochner “took a photograph of a new arrangement of blocks, cut it up, reprinted it as a negative, and arranged the four corners in every possible configuration using the serial principles of rotation and reversal to make Sixteen Isomorphs (Negative) of 1967, which he later illustrated alongside works by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse in his Artforum article ‘The Serial Attitude.’ [December 1967, pp. 28-33]” Bochner’s picture of “every possible configuration”–
Compare with the 24 figures in Frame Tales
(Log24, Nov. 10, 2008) and in Theme and Variations.
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