Jean Prouvé
From Objects and Furniture Design 1917-1944
From Objects and Furniture Design 1917-1944
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“Most inventors of electrical musical instruments have attempted to imitate eighteenth and nineteenth-century instruments, just as early automobile designers copied the carriage.
The Novachord and the Solovox are examples of this desire to imitate the past rather than construct the future. When Theremin provided an instrument with genuinely new possibilities, Thereministes did their utmost to make the instrument sound like some old instrument, giving it a sickeningly sweet vibrato, and performing upon it, with difficulty, masterpieces from the past. Although the instrument is capable of a wide variety of sound qualities, obtained by the turning of a dial, Thereministes act as censors, giving the public those sounds they think the public will like. We are shielded from new sound experiences.”
— John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
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The Novachord and the Solovox are examples of this desire to imitate the past rather than construct the future. When Theremin provided an instrument with genuinely new possibilities, Thereministes did their utmost to make the instrument sound like some old instrument, giving it a sickeningly sweet vibrato, and performing upon it, with difficulty, masterpieces from the past. Although the instrument is capable of a wide variety of sound qualities, obtained by the turning of a dial, Thereministes act as censors, giving the public those sounds they think the public will like. We are shielded from new sound experiences.”
— John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
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Տարվա եղանակները / Seasons of the Year (dir. Artavazd Pelechian, 1972)
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
8 Anime in Una Bomba. Romanzo esplosivo / 8 Souls in One Bomb. An Explosive Novel
Milan: Edizioni Futuriste di “Poesia,” 1919
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8 Anime in Una Bomba. Romanzo esplosivo / 8 Souls in One Bomb. An Explosive Novel
Milan: Edizioni Futuriste di “Poesia,” 1919
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Zbigniew Warpechowski
Drawing in the Corner, 1971
Action at Foksal Gallery,
Warsaw, 1971
“The action of Zbigniew Warpechowski (…) referred to a limited, illusive space of freedom and artistic autonomy in Poland of the 1970-s. The artist, put in the corner of the gallery hall, tried to annex the biggest possible area of the wall, making a coal drawing with circular movements of the arms.”
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Drawing in the Corner, 1971
Action at Foksal Gallery,
Warsaw, 1971
“The action of Zbigniew Warpechowski (…) referred to a limited, illusive space of freedom and artistic autonomy in Poland of the 1970-s. The artist, put in the corner of the gallery hall, tried to annex the biggest possible area of the wall, making a coal drawing with circular movements of the arms.”
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