Traditionally the window has been used as a framing device intended to guide the viewer’s eye to an essential part of the picture. When it came to the “Window Paintings,” however, Schlemmer took a slightly different approach.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, The Quotidian
Tagged: Oskar Schlemmer, painting, windows
The Quays’ interest in writing has nothing to do with the shepherding of short stories and novels from the page to the screen; rather, it’s all about the obsessive visual exploration of writing as both an activity and an artifact that permeates their films.
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film
This gallery contains a selection of stills from films by the Brothers Quay that reveal their obsession with writing.
Categories: Cinema, Gallery, Writing
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film
The first page of Tom Phillips’ A Humument is emblematic of the entire work. Textually and graphically it touches on some of the book’s central concerns and provides clues to certain of its mysteries.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature, Writing
Tagged: A Humument, appropriation, intertextuality, Tom Phillips, W.H. Mallock