Between the Present and Past Worlds

"A grey wall, a green ruin, rusty pike, 
Make my soul pass the equinoctial line 
Between the present and past worlds, and hover 
Upon their airy confine, half-seas-over"

G. G. Byron, Canto X of Don Juan, 1818-23
quoted here

Jacques Lipchitz - Man with a madolin - 1917

Oskar Schlemmer - Solemn Tragedians - 1924

Mark Epstein - Worker - 1922
via Third Organ

The End of a World and the Birth of Another

"We are living an epoch both dangerous 

and magnificent which embraces

desperately the end of a world and

the birth of another - a seeming confusion 

is its most immediate appearance."

Fernand Léger, 1947, in Maurice Fréchuret, 

Catalogue du Musée National Fernand Léger, 2006

Cornelis Van Eesteren & Frieda Fluck - Ascona - 1927

via Charnel House (again!)