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✖Richard Tuttle
44th Wire Piece
1972
scan at 100%, 2013
Abstract Monuments (1-6), 2013
Photographs of the back sides of gravestones.
Color In Full
“In 1962, Gene Bernofsky, Jo Ann Bernofsky and Clark Richert were students at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Gene and Clark developed a concept they called “Drop Art”. “Dropping” artworks from the rooftop of a loft space in Lawrence, they were making art a spontaneous part of everyday life in the face of a society they saw as increasingly materialistic and war-mongering. In 1965, they bought a small piece of land near Trinidad, Colorado and ?called their settlement Drop City. They were soon joined by other artists, writers and inventors, and they started building a community that celebrated creative work.
Drop City’s dazzling structures were based on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes and the crystalline designs of Steve Baer, a pioneer in geometric structure and solar energy. The Droppers had little building experience, but they were full of ingenuity and exuberance. Drop City became a lab for experimental building and and inspired a generation of alternative communities…
Drop City, a new documentary, screenings, as part of:
Architecture on Film, July 9, 2013, 7pm, The Architecture Foundation, London
West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965 1977, July 10, 2013, 7pm, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland”[via manystuff]
Zbigniew Warpechowski - Rysunek w kącie (Drawing in the Corner), 1971
Betty Woodman
Max Zerrahn
From Daimones by Federica Landi
-“The saliva replaces the seminal fluid in many cultures, used as magical element that can cure and fecundate through the single contact. Since it comes from the mouth and preserves the vital energy, it is often associated to the essence of the breath and the soul.”
(Craveri E. Michela,Intrecci di culture, 2008)
Elizabeth Taylor’s reflection
Rick Erfmann
rocking chair_ F.J. Kiesler 1942
Meret Oppenheim“Squirrel”1960
Leo Kornbrust
Aluminium-Objekt, 1970
Ringhiera Rossa vase, Ettore Sottsass
then and now