Desiderata

History of Art Student. London. Budding curator of Arts and things.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQiWz80RqRI)

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SoundScope

SoundScope is an art installation offering a spatial journey through music. Exhibited at Londonewcastle Project Space. Sponsored by Burning Man Arts.

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All forms of class consciousness are ideological; but some, so to speak, are more ideological than others. What is specifically ideological about the bourgeoisie is its inability to grasp the structure of the social formation as a whole, on account of the dire effects of reification. Reification fragments and dislocates our social experience, so that under its influence we forget that society is a collective process and come see it instead merely as this or that isolated object or institution. As Lukacs’s contemporary Karl Korsch argues, ideology is essentially a form of synecdoche, the figure of speech in which we take the part for the whole. What is peculiar to proletarian consciousness, in its fullest political development, is its capacity to ‘totalize’ the social order, for without such knowledge the working class will never be able to understand and transform its own conditions. A true recognition of its situation will be, inseparably, an insight into the social whole within which it is oppressively positioned; so that the moments in which the proletariat comes to self-consciousness, and knows the capitalist system for what it is, are in effect identical.

Terry Eagleton - “Ideology - An Introduction” (via mochente)

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Ela Boyd

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Barbara Hepworth

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Limitations of the gallery setting? 

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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

This piece by Smithson is the classic example of an earthwork, or a piece of art that rejects the traditional notions of a studio space and is instead created in the natural environment. More specifically, Spiral Jetty is an example of Smithson’s interest with entropic earthworks, or the tendency of forms in nature to simplify and decay over time. Smithson specifically chose the Great Salt Lake in Utah for the site because it already expressed the increasing decay and disorganization that characterizes entropy through the residue of salt left behind after evaporation. As a site-specific installation, this piece is only able to be known by actually traveling to the piece; however, it is one of Smithson’s most well-documented works and the photographs of its creation function as a surrogate of the piece itself.

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Florence Henri, Cactus Composition, 1931

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Florence Henri, Composition, 1931

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Florence Henri, Composition, 1931

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The Aegina sculptures in the Munich collection, Sophocles’ Antigone in the best critical edition, are, as the works they are, torn out of their own native sphere. However high their quality and power of impression, however good their state of preservation, however certain their interpretation, placing them in a collection has withdrawn them from their own world.

The Origin of the Work of Art, Martin Heidegger

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(Excerpt from Discourse on Thinking):It would be foolish to attack technology blindly. It would be shortsighted to condemn it as the work of the devil. We depend on technical devices; they even...

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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger (via shneevon)

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WONDER

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David Mabb

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Commodity as comrade. source

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“Edges, borders, fringes, rims, surfaces, points of focus, and the modulation of light and colour are all required for a pleasurable navigation through the world of objects, places, and spaces. They are primary aids to what is now frequently called ‘visual intelligence’."

David Brett