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Around a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), ...
The Cube and the Face
The Cube, as we can see, isn’t one. It is an irregular polyhedron which catalogues describe as having twelve sides — that nice figure, twelve, a destinal figure if ever there was one, which willfully evokes Mallarmé’s throw of the dice, at the very moment that the clock strikes twelve at midnight, in the dark house of Igitur. One can imagine that Giacometti wanted to give a unique volume to the twelve facets — six and six — of two cubes added together: a unique architecture...
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Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen
Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)
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Zur Kritik der Wirksamkeit in den Künsten
Kathrin Busch (ed.), Burkhard Meltzer (ed.), Tido von Oppeln (ed.)
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The Dance of All Things
Georges Didi-Huberman, Laurent Mannoni, ...
Movements of Air
It would be futile to resist the feeling that the marvelous curls of smoke, photographed by Étienne-Jules Marey between 1899 and 1901, first elicit from us. We have the impression of witnessing a pure beauty in the process of making, unmaking, and remaking itself incessantly before our eyes. It is a supreme flow—images of flow and a flow of images all at once—from which approximately fifty instants have been randomly “drawn,” all formed differently and likewise admirable. Such simple beauty...
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