“When I wrote the Imaginary Landscape for twelve radios,” Cage explained, “it was not for the purpose of shock or as a joke but rather to increase the unpredictability already inherent in the situation through the tossing of coins. Chance, to be precise, is a leap, provides a leap out of reach of one’s own grasp of oneself.”
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Music, Radio
Tagged: electronic music, indeterminacy, John Cage, radio art, sound collage
Peter Schmidt’s watercolor still-lifes and landscapes embody what I find most interesting about his work: its indifference to the monumental and the superlative, and its focus on the quiet, the “insignificant,” the intimate.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Internet
Tagged: Brian Eno, interesting blog, Oblique Strategies, painting, Peter Schmidt, watercolor
This gallery contains a selection of water color paintings by Peter Schmidt.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Gallery
Tagged: Brian Eno, painting, Peter Schmidt
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
Tagged: Oskar Schlemmer, painting, windows
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
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
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
Tagged: Oskar Schlemmer, painting, the window
This gallery contains a selection of nine Fensterbilder or “Window Paintings” by Oskar Schlemmer.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Gallery
Tagged: Oskar Schlemmer, painting, the window