Wikipedia - "Robert Desnos (4 July 1900-8 June 1945), was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day."
Wikipedia , poets.org, The Voice of Robert Desnos, Poets, The American Poetry Review
Robert Desnos
Wikipedia - "Robert Desnos (4 July 1900-8 June 1945), was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day."
Wikipedia , poets.org, The Voice of Robert Desnos, Poets, The American Poetry Review
New Order
Wikipedia - "New Order was the flagship band for Factory Records, and their minimalist album sleeves and non-image reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including New Order not wanting to put singles onto the albums."
Wikipedia, neworderonine, MySpace, VH1, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Captured Emotions
The Getty - "This exhibition tells the extraordinary story of a small group of artists who changed the course of art history. In the decades after the deaths of the great Renaissance masters, such as Raphael and Michelangelo, the art of painting was thought to have gone into steep decline."
The Getty
David Behrman
"David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions for performance in concerts."
Lovely Artist, (1), Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, Rhapsody
Lovely Artist, (1), Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, Rhapsody
Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison
Four Works on the Culture of Extraction
greenmuseum.org - "The Harrison's concept of art embraces a breathtaking range of disciplines. They are historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists. Their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context."
greenmuseum.org, Ronald Feldman, Two Lines of Sight and An Unexpected Connection
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
Diaporama Irlande 3
Camera Work - "Huynhs square photographs convey a pure and irrational atmosphere with great clarity and strength."
Camera Work, artnet, Moscow House of Photography
The Rape of Europa
"The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe."
The Rape of Europa, PBS, YouTube
The Rape of Europa, PBS, YouTube
Wallace Berman
"Wallace Berman (February 18, 1926 -February 18, 1976) was an American West Coast visual /assemblage artist."
Wikipedia, Wallace Berman 1926-1976, Andy Brumer, artnet, Google
Wikipedia, Wallace Berman 1926-1976, Andy Brumer, artnet, Google
P22 Music Text Composition Generator
"The idea was basic and simple-every letter of the alphabet was assigned to a note on a scale. This would allow for any text to be converted into musical notation. The idea was rejected by the John Cage Trust, however the John Cage Silence font based on his famous 4'33" composition was accepted and continues to be offered for sale to this day. An earlier project based on the work of Marcel Duchamp was also influential in the evolution of this project."
P22 Music Text Composition Generator
Bicycle kick
Wikipedia - "A bicycle kick, chalaca, chilena or overhead kick is a move in football (soccer), which is made by throwing the body up into the air, making a shearing movement with the legs to get one leg high overhead to reach the ball (in original head height), which gets kicked backward over the player's head."
Wikipedia, Soccer Traing, Bicycle Kick
Wikipedia, Soccer Traing, Bicycle Kick
Lutz Dammbeck
Versuchsanordnung II
"In 1982, the Leipzig painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck began working on his 'Hercules' projekt. The script for an experimental film was submitted to the Dresdener Studio für Trickfilm (Dresden Cartoon Studio) and unalterably rejected in 1984."
Madia Art Net
Charles Darwin
Wikipedia - "The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory."
Wikipedia, Lucid Cafe, BBC, BBC - 1, BBC - Darwin's twin track: 'Evolution and emancipation'
Wikipedia, Lucid Cafe, BBC, BBC - 1, BBC - Darwin's twin track: 'Evolution and emancipation'
Robert Kelly
Wikipedia - "Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group."
Wikipedia, Poetry Foundation, EPC, poets.org, JACKET#6, CONJUNCTIONS: A Web Exclusive, Earthlink
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild 2005
"Richter officially began painting in 1962. Here we give you access to his various works, ranging from oils on canvas to overpainted photographs, and including the historical reference of photographs, 'Atlas'."
Gerhard Richter, Wikipedia, SFMOMA
Kronos Quartet
"For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington, John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet."
Kronos Quartet, Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East
Ghost, Kader Attia
TimesOnline - "Now he has put together an exhibition of contemporary art from the Middle East which contains elements that could provoke dramatically hostile reactions from Muslim fundamentalist quarters."
The Saatchi Gallery
Nancy Graves
Rheo, 1975
Wikipedia - "Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon."
Wikipedia, Nancy Graves Foundation, artnet
Daniel Pitin
Behind the House
"Daniel Pitin choses as the subject of his paintings film stills not for the story they tell but for the gestures and expressions of its protagonists - movement and gestures are what interest Pitin and more often than not these are pained and violent."
hunt kastner, artnews
American folk music revival
1952, Anthology of American Folk Music
Wikipedia - "The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, of course, since traditional folk music has thousands of years of history, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and Cisco Houston had enjoyed a limited general popularity in decades prior to the 1950s."
Wikipedia, The Field Recorders' Collective, npr, The 111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American
Folk Music Tradition
Visual Poetry Today
One Inch Square Text, Peter Finch
Geof Huth - "The child of both poetry and the visual arts, visual poetry has a double set of interests and its forms are myriad. Some visual poets continue to write traditional poems that require a certain visual context in which to properly mean—a context so important that it serves as a critical component of a unified text."
Poetry Foundation, Wikipedia, vispoets, derek beaulieu, EPC, Joel Lipman, (1), The New Post-literate, To be looked over, not to be overlooked
Spike Lee
IMDb - "Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. His father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature."
IMDb, Wikipedia, Google
Jules Breton
Calling in the Gleaners
Rehs Galleries - "As one of the primary painters of peasant themes in the nineteenth century, and an artist strongly influenced by his own native traditions from northern France, Jules Breton’s reputation rivaled that of Eugène Delacroix or Jean-Dominique Ingres at the time of his death in 1906."
Rehs Galleries , Wikipedia, Google
Rehs Galleries - "As one of the primary painters of peasant themes in the nineteenth century, and an artist strongly influenced by his own native traditions from northern France, Jules Breton’s reputation rivaled that of Eugène Delacroix or Jean-Dominique Ingres at the time of his death in 1906."
Rehs Galleries , Wikipedia, Google
Rail transport
Georgetown Loop Railroad 2. John Leyba
Wikipedia - "Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways or railroads. Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates International trade and economic growth in most countries."
Wikipedia
Wikipedia - "Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways or railroads. Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates International trade and economic growth in most countries."
Wikipedia
Playing The Beatles Backwards
"23. Rain. You could tell a masterpiece like Revolver was just around the corner when a song as wondrous as 'Rain' was being released as a B-side. The Beatles were entering a phase where their songs remained accessible even as the experimentation inherent within them was becoming increasingly evident."
JB HOME
JB HOME
Katharina Sieverding
Transformer
P.S.1 MoMA - "Sieverding firmly believes that the responsibility of the artist is to act as a politically engaged being, absorbing, synthesizing, and commenting on the rapid advancement of our technology-driven age.
P.S.1, artnet, Art Facts Net
P.S.1 MoMA - "Sieverding firmly believes that the responsibility of the artist is to act as a politically engaged being, absorbing, synthesizing, and commenting on the rapid advancement of our technology-driven age.
P.S.1, artnet, Art Facts Net
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Wikipedia - "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956."
Wikipedia, The Library of Congress, 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Wikipedia, The Library of Congress, 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
Riga
" Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, explores a new style in the visual arts and architecture that developed in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth century."
National Gallery of Art, Wikipedia, ArtLex, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
" Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, explores a new style in the visual arts and architecture that developed in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth century."
National Gallery of Art, Wikipedia, ArtLex, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rachel Whiteread
Place, (Village), 2006-08
Wikipedia - "She is probably best known for Ghost, a large plaster cast of the inside of a room in a Victorian house, and for her resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square."Wikipedia, Rachel Whiteread, Turner Prize, Gooogle
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Wikipedia - "The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. This monument was probably an ex-voto offered by the people of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval victory in the early second century BC."
Louvre, Wikipedia
Louvre, Wikipedia
Don McLean
Wikipedia - "Don McLean's most famous composition, 'American Pie', is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash in 1959."
Wikipedia, Google, Dailymotion
David Creedon
Karen Day - "Ireland's sluggish economy and stifling religious regime during the 1950s left the country with severe emigration issues. Many families abandoned their homes never to return. Irish photographer David Creedon examines these dilapidated houses and forgotten stories of the people who once occupied them with his series of photographs, Ghosts of the Faithful Departed, taken between 2005 and 2007."
Cool Hunting, David Creedon
Cool Hunting, David Creedon
Bill Wittliff
"Called 'a poet of the ordinary' by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Carter's haunting, enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, The U.S., and Latin America."
Bill Wittliff
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