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Showing posts with label Karl Marx. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karl Marx. Show all posts

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Demiurgos

“To Hegel, the process of thinking, which, under the name of ‘the Idea’, he even transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos (the creator, the maker) of the real world.... With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.” 
Karl Marx,
quoted here

Lyonel Feininger - Cathedral of Socialism - 1919

Cristopher Dresser - Plate XIX - ca. 1876
From his Studies in Design

Pablo Picasso - The guitarist - 1910

Thursday, 8 November 2012

The Second Time as Farce

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, 
so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: 
the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852


Kasimir Malevich - Suprematism (?) - 1915

Blue Noses - Kitchen Suprematism - 2005

Frank O. Gehry - Winton Guest House - 1983 to 1986