Twittering Machines

Go Big Blue!

The original Merzbau in Schwitter’s Hannover studio

Yves Klein and a model during the performance “Anthropométries de l’époque bleue”
[Anthropometries of the Blue Epoch] at Galerie Internationale d’art contemporain, Paris, March 9, 1960

Maria Popovi
February, 1966

Joseph Beuys
Felt Postcard, 1985

“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.”

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Marcel Duchamp
Poster for the Third French Chess Championship, 1925

Tantra Song
Selected & With Writings by Franck André Jamme
(112 pages, over 50 color illustrations)
$39.95

French poet Franck André Jamme traveled to India in search of these beautiful and minimal paintings and he eventually found them (after suffering but you have to read all about it in that linked page). I have an older, smaller book from the 1994 Paris Agnes b exhibit of Jamme’s Tantra paintings where they were first shown and I find them beautiful, simple, calming, soothing, meditative+sexy and oh so modern (even though they’re not).

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