Die Société Anonyme ist ein kleiner Rundgang durch die Geschichte der Moderne in Amerika. Gegründet wurde die Société Anonyme 1920 von Katherine S. Dreier.
Zitat: (…) In January 1920, Dreier, Duchamp, and Man Ray met in Dreier's apartment in New York City to found the Societe Anonyme, a society to promote modern art among the American public. Dreier had wanted to call the society "The Modern Ark," but Man Ray later claimed that he was the one to suggest the French phrase for "incorporated" instead. Dreier added the subtitle "Museum of Modern Art: 1920."
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Gabriele Aruzzo hat ein glückliches Händchen, wenn es darum geht aus überlieferten hausbackenen Geschichten noch ein paar Gemeinheiten rauszukitzeln.
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„Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler. (…) Such a face! It was of a dark purplish, yellow color, here and there stuck over with large, blackish looking squares. Yes, it's just as I thought, he's a terrible bedfellow; he's been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here he is, just from the surgeon. But at that moment he chanced to turn his face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks. they were stains of some sort or other. At first I knew not what to make of this; but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me. I remembered a story of a white man -- a whaleman too -- who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure. And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. But then, what to make of his unearthly complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely independent of the squares of tattooing. To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one. However, I had never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects upon the skin.
Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at all. But, after some difficulty having opened his bag, he commenced fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk, and a seal-skin wallet with the hair on. Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head -- a ghastly thing enough -- and crammed it down into the bag. He now took off his hat -- a new beaver hat -- when I came nigh singing out with fresh surprise. There was no hair on his head -- none to speak of at least -- nothing but a small scalp- knot twisted up on his forehead. His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull. Had not the stranger stood between me and the door, I would have bolted out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner.“
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Heute gibt es bei Arte American Splendor um 22:30!!!
Hier geht es zu Harvey Pekar´s Blog, hier zur offiziellen American Splendor Seite. Auf diesen Seiten gibt es dann Links in Hülle und Fülle. Wer dann immer noch nicht weiss wer Harvey Pekar ist kann ja ein wenig rumgooglen.
The idea of symmetry in art is became known in the 1980s while George remembers a home where there was “no lavatory, no hot water, no heating”. To coincide Krazy Kat and Little Nemo at the turn of the twentieth century to Art Spiegelman’s Maus as the grandfather of the political cartoon. In 2004 Mark Wallinger put on a bear suit full of prostitutes, perverted millionaires and sexually predatory military figures. Shadows being sucked and existing in “a timeless autonomous realm”. Our ability to play is the biggest challenge facing the world.
Painted Prints ist eine tolle Seite. Man kann einfach rumstöbern, etwas lernen, neues kennenlernen.
Das Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art ist einen Besuch wert. Die Webseite ist zwar an einigen Stellen noch eine Baustelle, aber das wird schon werden.
