“Countless layers of ideas, images, feelings have fallen successively on your brain as softly as light. It seems that each buries the preceding, but none has really perished.”
-Charles Baudelaire
“Countless layers of ideas, images, feelings have fallen successively on your brain as softly as light. It seems that each buries the preceding, but none has really perished.”
-Charles Baudelaire
Really interesting article in the New York Times—A young writer from Berlin uses “literary sampling” in her most recent novel, creating a good deal of controversy, as she feelsĀ appropriation is as legitimate in the world of literature as in the world of art and music .
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“Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach…Illogical judgements lead to new experience…Formal art is essentially rational.”
-Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969. In Lucy R. Lippard, “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (New York, 1973), 75.
I guess this is appropriate here, I can’t seem to leave these pictures alone.
Most of these are from the old Red Cross First Aid manual (4th edition, 1957), but the anti-aging device is from Doors, Windows, and Skylights by Dan Ramsey.
This gallery thing is confusing, I hope that it works.
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