2025.10.16
...photography, which would become increasingly important in Duchamp's work from then on. Photography was also involved in the Box of 1914, the first collection of his manuscript notes. Duchamp selected sixteen notes and one drawing, Avoir l'apprenti dans le soleil (To Have the Apprentice in the Sun)--the one that shows a man on a bicycle riding up an inclined plane--and had them mounted on matboard; at least four photographs were made of each item, and the sets were then placed in cardboard boxes that had originally contained Kodak photographic plates. His reasons for "publishing" this extremely limited edition and for choosing these particular notes out of so many others on hand are thoroughly obscure. Three of the noted concern the Standard Stoppages, but the rest seem to have little or no relationship to The Large Glass or to one another; several are incomplete, and the drawing is a complete mystery.
Calvin Tomkins, Marcel Duchamp: A Biography (1996), p. 138.
2024.10.16
   
Collage Restraint
2024.10.16
The phone/camera is resting on the kitchen table facing the ceiling.
This is what is between the tabletop and the ceiling.
2015.10.16
A good example of art about architecture
Vice Grip House 1998
2015.10.16
A good example of art about architecture
Room with a View 2001
2007.10.16
Differentiation between the outside and the inside
"trying to mix the two gently"
osmosis
1a. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane.
1b. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions.
2. a subtle or gradual absorption or mingling
working title: The Semipermeable Membrane of Architecture
2002.10.16
art and architecture 30 years ago
The world's largest painting--Franklin's Footpath--by Gene Davis on the parking lot in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art--31464 square feet, 12 miles of masking tape used, 400 gallons of special paint. As predicted, it lasted about 5 years. I fondly remember walking over it often. Oh boy, now I'm dreaming reenactment.
2000.10.16
baroque (cyber?) theater
"At the end of the play, the two braggarts reappeared on the stage together to reaffirm the "reality" of the illusion. Having asked each other how they fared, the impresario of the fictitious performance answered nonchalantly that he had not really shown anything but the audience getting up to leave "with their carriages and horses accompanied by a great number of lights and torches." Then, drawing the curtain, he displayed the scene he had just said he had shown to his audience, thus rendering complete the incredible reversal of reality and illusion to the confused amazement of the real spectators, who were now finding themselves ready to leave and caught in the enchanting act of feigning the feigned spectators."
1991.10.16
Palais des Congrès: Roof/Architectural Promenade
The architectural promenade reaches its goal in the roof garden/solarium--the path has ascended to the sky. The bridges and ramps of the Villa Stein de Monzie, the Villa Savoye, and the Palais des Congrès all culminate in a 'room' that is open to the sun and the stars.
Although the route through the Wallraf-Richartz Museum does not end in a roof garden, it is nonetheless noteworthy that the path ends on a large balcony platform in the shape of a cloud.
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