the stars are clear sounds; the sun a magnificent silence; the moon?...whispers that are almost sounds in the undulating wave of noise the universe is

cracks in stan brakhage's dog star man - prelude - 1964painting in dog star man - preludepainting and some scratching in dog star man, part 3.- related work -jackson pollock - triad - 1948 jackson pollock - number 22a, 1948 - 1948jackson pollock - untitled ca. 1950 (detail)jackson pollock - one: number 31 - 1950jackson pollockbarnett newman - untitled - 1961clyfford still - painting - 1951-

then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or i’ll clear the world of thee!

classic books (number 4):moby-dick; or, the whale by herman melville, 1851(compiled with great assistance from the famed german librarian, herr t light)such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. at this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. but

only, the fruit still has to avoid being eaten

some examples from robert motherwell/george wittenborn's documents of modern art (1944-1972), covers and typography by paul rand.titles include:guillaume apollinaire: the cubist painters (1944)piet mondrain: plastic art and pure plastic art (1945)lászló moholy-nagy: the new vision (1946)louis henry sullivan: kindergarten chats (1947)wassily kandinsky: concerning the spiritual in art (1947)jean

abstractions, monochromes and minimalism, part 2

a small list of considerations for a chronicle of abstraction, with examples from music, photography, painting, film, video, and literature, part 2. (see part 1)including minimalism and the monochrome.mainly documenting books in my collection.1. john virtueblack and white paintings of a barely perceivable london skyline.books:-john virtue: london paintings, national gallery2. hans danuserswiss