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Monday 25 June 2012

Hands Studies

«Laissez un instant tomber ce voile, vous appercevrez avec horreur 
la source et l'origine de tous maux, de tous crimes, là-même où vous
 prétendez puiser la sagesse.» 

Morelly, Code de la Nature ou le véritable esprit de ses lois, 1755


Germaine Krull, Hands Study, 1929

Egon Schiele, Self Portrait with lowered head, 1912

Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O'Keefe, Hands and Thimble - 1919

André Kertész - My Mother’s Hands - Budapest - 1919

Sunday 10 June 2012

Crossroads

"If all artists could see the crossroads of these celestial paths, 
if they could comprehend these monstrous runways and the weaving 
of our bodies with the clouds in the sky, then they would not paint chrysanthemums
Kazimir Malevitch, "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: 
The New Realism in Painting", 1915


Alfred Barr, Cubism and Abstract Art Chart, 1936

André Breton, Surrealist Intrusion into the Enchanter's Domain, 1960 (thanks to Tessel)

Neue Slovenische Kunst, NSK Organizational Diagram, 1986

« It is a sort of absolute rule that everywhere, in all places, at all times of civilization, in all beliefs, by all means and in all regards, the untrue supports the true ; the true gives the untrue as its ancestor, as its cause, as its author, as its origin and its end, without exception nor remedy, and the true engenders this untrue by which it itself demands to be engendered
Paul Valery, Petite lettre sur les mythes, 1928

Friday 8 June 2012

N-Sphere

"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
Georges Bataille, In Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939


I have an article on Mishima and the Total Performance in the June issue of N-Sphere:


Thursday 7 June 2012

Russia into a New America

"Carbon is transformed into diamond 
Russia into a New America 
A new one, not the old America"

Alexander Blok, Retribution Foreword, 
quoted from Tim Tzouliadis The Forsaken.

Albert Kahn - Gorky Factory - Nizhny Novgorod - 929

Arcadiy Nikolayev - GL-1, produced at the Gorky Factory - 1938 (?)

Arkady Shaiket - First cars from Gorky Factory - 1930