2005.04.19 10:42
Re: Selective Memories - Unbekannt
...and while we're speaking of aesthetic dislocation, Duchamp found a new picture to put on his d'art board—lower left corner of page 10 Artforum February 2004.
"I love hitting the Bullshit's Eye!"
Ah, thanks for the selective memories.
2005.04.19 16:30
Privilegium Ottonianum
Before his death Alberic made the Romans swear to elect his son, Octavian, when Agapetus died. In 955 this promise was fulfilled and the young man became John XII. His conduct as pope was scandalous and his politics unsuccessful. In Feb. 962 he crowned the German king Otto I Holy Roman Emperor and obtained from him a confirmation and extension of the temporal powers of the papacy, the so-called Ottonian privilege (Privilegium Ottonianum). But a proviso to the Ottonian privilege gave the emperor power of ratification over papal elections.
The pope and the emperor soon quarreled. Otto had John deposed and replaced by Leo VIII (Dec. 963). When Otto's duties took him away from Rome, John again obtained control of the city and took vengeance on his foes. Leo fled (Feb. 964). John died (May) before Otto I returned to Rome, and the Romans immediately elected Benedict V. Otto had Benedict deposed and sent into exile while he restored Leo VIII (June).
[a couple paragraphs later...]
Otto III named as John XV's successor the first German pope, his 23-year-old cousin Bruno, who took the name Gregory V and immediately crowned the emperor (May 21, 996).
-- "Papacy" in Encyclopedia Britannica (1969).
St. Helena is named in the Roman Martyrology on August 18,...;it is observed universally in the East, but on May 21, with that rather equivocal person, her son Constantine: the Byzantines refer to them as "the holy, illustrious and great emperors, crowned by God and equal with the apostles." --Butler's Lives of the Saints.
I wonder what would happen, if anything, if all Catholics could pray to Constantine as a saint.
Maybe it just comes down to enjoying the odds of all this.
2005.04.20 14:20
Re: Selective Memories - Unbekannt
not quite dada, but definitely caca.
2005.04.21 13:24
Re:birth - Re:life - Re:death - Unbekannt
"So it was with Florence and Leonora in matters of culture.
But on this occasion I knew something was up. I found Florence some days before, reading books like Ranke's History of the Popes, Symond's Renaissance, Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic, and Luther's Table Talk."
Well, it was Hitler's birthday yesterday, but today is Queen Elizabeth II's. And tomorrow forty-one years ago is the day Pop Art died--RIP
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2005.04.22 09:48
Re:Memories
Sainte Geneviève and Duchamp are quite chummy, actually. It has a lot to do with the whole Pantheon as national mausoleum thing.
Jacques Germain Soufflot
Sainte Geneviève
called the Panthéon since the Revolution
Paris, 1756-1790
There's Geneviève and there's Catherine de Ricci. So how many spouses does Christ have exactly?
2005.04.22 12:53
Re: Selective Memories - Unbekannt
"The miracles which were preformed there from the time of her burial rendered this church famous over all France, so that at length it began to be known by her name. The fabric, however, fell into decay, and a new church [which has a striking resemblence to one of Piranesi's designs within the Prima Parti, 1750] was begun in 1764. This has been secularized and, under the name of the Pantheon, is now used as a national mausoleum."
Jacques Germain Soufflot
Sainte Geneviève
called the Panthéon since the Revolution
Paris, 1756-1790
"Boy oh boy, this hitting the Bullshit's Eye is getting funner all the time."
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2005.04.23 12:02
Architecture displaying movement?
"Matta represented the "space of feelings" in hallucinatory images--for example, the project for an apartment, with intersecting spaces and soft walls that shifted in response to its occupants, that he published in the Surrealist magazine Minotaur, in 1938."
Maybe I should start a thread entitled "Architecture displaying reenactment?"
2005.04.23 12:09
AN ARCHITECTURE OF REMOVEMENT
"If someone in the museum was truly interested in my work they would let me cut open the building. The desire for exhibiting the leftover pieces hopefully will diminish as time goes by. This may be useful for people whose mentality is oriented toward possession. Amazing, the way people steal stones from the Acropolis."
--Gordon Matta-Clark, February 1978.
2005.04.23 12:36
a bavarian pope?
Ron asked:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4468761.stm
what does your mom have to say?
Steve replied:
My mom says it's all that Wittelsbach money that got the Bavarian Catholic Church where it is today. And then she told me about Privilegium Ottonianum. She has been waiting a long time for this moment, ever since she saw that painting of a Bavarian von Ow Bishop hanging in the dining room at 45 Lindenstrasse. Now she has time for writing "Notes on Concentration Camp." God bless her.
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Ludwig and Otto continue to track the trail their spent money still makes.
Like 18 January 2005, 19 April 2005 was another trilocation day--Rainier and Grace celebrating their 49th Wedding Anniversary at Memorial Hall, the manifestation of Benedict XVI at the Vatican, and Ludwig and Otto doing a kind of street dance throughout Bavaria.
"Hey Maria, is it true that Otto likes Philadelphia because its soft-pretzels are just as good as Bavaria's?
Yeah, it doesn't take much to please him."
2005.04.29 12:34
mcmansions and the american architect
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