Kafka’s parable of leopards in the temple has always struck me as a perfect allegory of the avant-garde in that it points out the truism that in art the transgressive is ultimately absorbed into the canon.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature
Tagged: anti-art, Franz Kafka, Susan Sontag, the avant-garde
The radioheads among us may wish to know about ShortWaveMusic, Myke Dodge Weiskopf’s paean to the random poetry and intermittent static of short wave radio.
Categories: Internet, Music, Radio
Tagged: interesting blog, short wave radio, sound collage
In spring of 1942 Oskar Schlemmer began a series of new paintings representing scenes glimpsed from his window at nightfall. Unsurprisingly perhaps, he gave the paintings the collective title Fensterbilder or “Window Paintings.”
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, The Quotidian
Tagged: Oskar Schlemmer, painting, windows
This gallery contains a selection of nine Fensterbilder or “Window Paintings” by Oskar Schlemmer.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Gallery, The Quotidian
Tagged: Oskar Schlemmer, painting, windows