Cycle

Natalia Goncharova - Velocipedist - 1913

Lyonel Feininger - Das Radrennen - 1912

Umberto Boccioni - Dinamismo di un Ciclista - 1913

Gilding Pale Streams

Paul Sérusier - Le Talisman - 1888

Frantisek Kupka - Ordonnance sur verticales en jaune - 1913

Kurt Schwitters - Merz: Ashoff Ellen - 1922

What they have always done

“But aren’t the good person, the moral, the normal, the useful person, are not the ideal patriot, the disciplined ideal party member, the perfect citizen already standardized people? Visions of the future are herewith opened up for all standardizing institutions. What they already have always done, they will now do with the aid and the unquestioned authority of science and technology. The current of the times is taking a direction that serves their purposes, the remains of the individual are polished away.”

Robert Musil, Philosophy of a Shoe Factory, 1924-26

translated by Genese Grill

Lotte Bloch Zavrel - Peter Altenberg, Hermann Bahr and Koloman Moser - 1913

via Vienna U

Adulterated

"I have reread Nietzsche, lately, during military maneuvers in Silesia. He had great gifts as novelist, but his Overman is still-born. The name alone make me think of all this modern advertisement, to all those products that cannot hold the name of a substance, because they are adulterated."
Valery Larbaud, AO Barnabooth: His Diary, 1913
c.f. Eric Michaud, Le mythe social, ou l'efficacité de l'image sans images

John Vanderpant - No.2 Towers in White - 1934

Georgia O’Keeffe - City Night - 1926

Henri Cartier-Bresson - New York City - 1947

Barnett Newman - Moment - 1946
via Quincampoix

Heart of Stone

"His heart is like ice, he feels no pain

... For the creatures downtrodden by destiny...

The tears of those unfortunates thrown in the bustle

His heart of stone knows no warmth."

Nella in Alexander Bogdanov, Engineer Menni. A Martian Stranded on Earth, 1913

Lazar Khidekel - Black suprematism circular - ?

Alexander Rodchenko - Logo design for Dobrolet - 1923

Mária Balážová - Serpent Geometry 2 - 1994

The Chains of my Mortality

"I had been deafened by the clanking of the chains of my mortality"

Saint Augustine, The Confessions, 397-398

Jacob Epstein - Rockdrill - 1913

Gustav Klutsis - Multilingual propaganda machine - 1925


Richard Vergez - Boost - 2007