Above or Below

“Women are kept from moral agency not by biology, but by a male social system that puts women above or below simple human choice”
Andrea Dworkin - Right-Wing Women - 1983

Gustav Klimt - Beethoven Frieze, detail (Paradise Chorus) -1902

J.M. Lauweriks - L'Odorat - ? (c.a. 1900?)

Koloman Moser - Poster for the 13th Vienna Secession Exhibition - 1902

Piet Mondrian - Evolution Tryptich - 1911

Human Inertia

"Because one must produce,

one must by all possible means of activity replace nature

wherever it can be replaced,

one must find a major field of action for human inertia,

the worker must have something to keep him busy,

new fields of activity must be created,

in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake manufactured products,

of all the vile synthetic substitutes

in which beatiful real nature has no part,

and must give way finally and shamefully before all the victorious substitute products

in which the sperm of all artificial insemination factories

will make a miracle

in order to produce armies and battleships."

Antonin Artaud, To Have Done With The Judgement of God, 1947

Louis Kahn - Library, Competition for Washington University - 1956

via Infinite Interior

J. L. M. Lauweriks - Interior for Exhibition of Christian Art - 1910

John Russell Pope - Proposal for Lincoln Memorial - 1912
via An Architectural Humanism

Otto Kohtz - Reichshaus am Königsplatz - Berlin
via Ross Wolfe

Like a small photograph - Peter Behrens

“Art is the performance of the cosmic drama in which by means of pictures as symbols the cosmic event is shown in deep convincing acts. The cosmic story, the cosmic drama, the cosmic statue, the cosmic painting, the cosmic building, in short, the harmony, the whole cosmos put together in one aspect, like a small photograph which shows the whole scene.”

J.L.M. Lauweriks, Het nut en doel der kunst, in Theosophia, 1907
Quoted in and translated by F.G. Evelein, “‘Pure Theosophical art.’ cosmogenesis, cosmic consciousness and evolution.” 

Paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 1996, via Susan R. Henderson 

Peter Behrens - Crematorium - Hagen - 1906/1907

Peter Behrens - Crematorium - Hagen - 1906/1907

Peter Behrens - Crematorium - Hagen - 1906/1907