Update at 9:06 PM ET . . .
Windows lockscreen this evening —
Related material in this journal: Weaveworld.
Update at 9:06 PM ET . . .
Windows lockscreen this evening —
Related material in this journal: Weaveworld.
Harold Rosenberg, "Art and Words,"
The New Yorker , March 29, 1969. From page 110:
"An advanced painting of this century inevitably gives rise
in the spectator to a conflict between his eye and his mind;
as Thomas Hess has pointed out, the fable of the emperor's
new clothes is echoed at the birth of every modemist art
movement. If work in a new mode is to be accepted, the
eye/mind conflict must be resolved in favor of the mind;
that is, of the language absorbed into the work. Of itself,
the eye is incapable of breaking into the intellectual system
that today distinguishes between objects that are art and
those that are not. Given its primitive function of
discriminating among things in shopping centers and on
highways, the eye will recognize a Noland as a fabric
design, a Judd as a stack of metal bins— until the eye's
outrageous philistinism has been subdued by the drone of
formulas concerning breakthroughs in color, space, and
even optical perception (this, too, unseen by the eye, of
course). It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that paintings
are today apprehended with the ears. Miss Barbara Rose,
once a promoter of striped canvases and aluminum boxes,
confesses that words are essential to the art she favored
when she writes, 'Although the logic of minimal art gained
critical respect, if not admiration, its reductiveness allowed
for a relatively limited art experience.' Recent art criticism
has reversed earlier procedures: instead of deriving principles
from what it sees, it teaches the eye to 'see' principles; the
writings of one of America's influential critics often pivot on
the drama of how he failed to respond to a painting or
sculpture the first few times he saw it but, returning to the
work, penetrated the concept that made it significant and
was then able to appreciate it. To qualify as a member of the
art public, an individual must be tuned to the appropriate
verbal reverberations of objects in art galleries, and his
receptive mechanism must be constantly adjusted to oscillate
to new vocabularies."
New vocabulary illustrated:
Graphic Design and a Symplectic Polarity —
Background: The diamond theorem
and a zero system .
A sequel to Friday afternoon's Diamond Star
Diamond Star —
A doodle from this year's [2012’s] Feast of the Epiphany—
A doodle based on today's previous post and on
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Context — All posts tagged "Eden."
For some images related to this rather biblical topic,
see Hillman + Dream in this journal.
“She was dazzled by light and shade, by the confusing
duplication of reflections and of frames. All coming from
too many directions for the mind to take account of.
The various images bounced against each other
until she felt a desperate vertigo….”
Summary image:
“… Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed….”
Judy Davis in the Marabar Caves
The above image is from this journal on Sunday, April 13, 2008.
The preceding cover of a book by Northrop Frye was suggested
by material in this journal from February 2003.
See also Yankee Puzzle and Doodle Dandy.
Today's Google Doodle for the 100th birthday of Charles Addams—
A doodle from this year's Feast of the Epiphany—
A doodle based on today's previous post and on a post for Twelfth Night, 2003—
“Paul B. Davis ’07-’08, who contributed to a collection of student essays written in 2005 on the purpose and structure of a Harvard education, said that ‘the devil is in the details’….”
From the weblog of Peter Woit:
“The New Yorker keeps its physics theme going this week with cover art that includes a blackboard full of basic equations from quantum mechanics.”
Detail
The detail suggests
the following
religious images from
Twelfth Night 2003:
Devil’s Claws, or |
Yankee Puzzle, or |
“Mercilessly tasteful”
— Andrew Mueller,
review of Suzanne Vega’s
“Songs in Red and Gray“
Whirligig
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.
Twelfth night is the night of January 5-6.
Tonight is twelfth night in Australia; 4 AM Jan. 5
in New York City is 8 PM Jan. 5 in Sydney.
An October 6 entry:
Twenty-first Century Fox
On Sunday, October 6, 1889, the Moulin Rouge music hall opened in Paris, an event that to some extent foreshadowed the opening of Fox Studios Australia in Sydney on November 7, 1999. The Fox ceremonies included, notably, Kylie Minogue singing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend."
Red Windmill |
Kylie Minogue |
For the mathematical properties of the red windmill (moulin rouge) figure at left, see Diamond Theory.
An October 5 entry:
The Message from Vega
"Mercilessly tasteful"
— Andrew Mueller,
review of Suzanne Vega's
"Songs in Red and Gray"
In accordance with the twelfth-night
"whirligig of time" theme,
here are two enigmatic quilt blocks:
Devil's Claws, or |
Yankee Puzzle, or |
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