The artists of these times have turned inward. Their life is a struggle against madness. They are disrupted, fragmented, dissevered, if they fail to find in their work for a moment equilibrium, balance, necessity, harmony . . . The strongest affinity shown in works of art today is with the dread masks of primitive peoples, and with the plague and terror masks of the Peruvians, Australian aborigines, and Negroes. The artists of this age face the world as ascetics of their own spirituality. They live deeply buried lives. They are forerunners, prophets of a new era. Only they can understand the tonalities of their language. They stand in opposition to society, as did heretics in the Middle Ages. Their works are simultaneously philosophical, political, and prophetic. They are forerunners of an entire epoch, a new total culture. They are hard to understand, and one achieves an understanding of them only if one changes the inner basis—if one is prepared to break with a thousand-year-old tradition. You will not understand them if you believe in God and not in chaos. The artists of this age turn against themselves and against art . . . They seek what is essential and what is spiritual, what has not yet been profaned . . .
Monday, March 16, 2015
what 100 years does for philosophy
Hugo Ball, from 'Kandinsky' (a lecture given at the Galerie Dada, April 7 1917)
The artists of these times have turned inward. Their life is a struggle against madness. They are disrupted, fragmented, dissevered, if they fail to find in their work for a moment equilibrium, balance, necessity, harmony . . . The strongest affinity shown in works of art today is with the dread masks of primitive peoples, and with the plague and terror masks of the Peruvians, Australian aborigines, and Negroes. The artists of this age face the world as ascetics of their own spirituality. They live deeply buried lives. They are forerunners, prophets of a new era. Only they can understand the tonalities of their language. They stand in opposition to society, as did heretics in the Middle Ages. Their works are simultaneously philosophical, political, and prophetic. They are forerunners of an entire epoch, a new total culture. They are hard to understand, and one achieves an understanding of them only if one changes the inner basis—if one is prepared to break with a thousand-year-old tradition. You will not understand them if you believe in God and not in chaos. The artists of this age turn against themselves and against art . . . They seek what is essential and what is spiritual, what has not yet been profaned . . .
The artists of these times have turned inward. Their life is a struggle against madness. They are disrupted, fragmented, dissevered, if they fail to find in their work for a moment equilibrium, balance, necessity, harmony . . . The strongest affinity shown in works of art today is with the dread masks of primitive peoples, and with the plague and terror masks of the Peruvians, Australian aborigines, and Negroes. The artists of this age face the world as ascetics of their own spirituality. They live deeply buried lives. They are forerunners, prophets of a new era. Only they can understand the tonalities of their language. They stand in opposition to society, as did heretics in the Middle Ages. Their works are simultaneously philosophical, political, and prophetic. They are forerunners of an entire epoch, a new total culture. They are hard to understand, and one achieves an understanding of them only if one changes the inner basis—if one is prepared to break with a thousand-year-old tradition. You will not understand them if you believe in God and not in chaos. The artists of this age turn against themselves and against art . . . They seek what is essential and what is spiritual, what has not yet been profaned . . .
Sunday, August 3, 2014
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Monday, May 12, 2014
This is dialogue happening in America.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/05/10/hole-punch-cloud-spotted-in-stockton/
The commentary, below, on this article is superbly strange.
wow. what a fascinating riff(t) between the peoples, here. Shows how much "reality" creation is alive and functioning in the hearts and minds of people.
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The commentary, below, on this article is superbly strange.
wow. what a fascinating riff(t) between the peoples, here. Shows how much "reality" creation is alive and functioning in the hearts and minds of people.
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
Good old Americana, slathered with a talented voice and nice understated backup
The next Joni Mitchell type. The sound is there; but who will listen and give them greatness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qLcOVpZxIw
why India's politics is so fascinating.
India has about a kerxzgillion people, and.. in it's own unique way, it is a democracy. And it is a major territory in Asia, which has it's own clout on the rise, most unmistakably.
http://qz.com/201066/india-election-polls-have-incorrectly-predicted-a-bjp-sweep-in-the-last-two-national-elections/
http://qz.com/201066/india-election-polls-have-incorrectly-predicted-a-bjp-sweep-in-the-last-two-national-elections/
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