Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-27 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
I tried to find "Mechanisation takes command" on the web. Very little by Giedeon in Sorry, he is spelled GIDEON, Siegfried Gideon, I found one link with altavista to a swiss site, he was architect...

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-26 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Rosalie Heiko If you read Flight Out of Time you'll see the deeply spiritual feeling out of which Dada in Zurich (at least Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings) grew. And when it was over, Ball being very religious lost his mind. I suggested reading Giedeon. Author of "Mechanisation takes

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-26 Thread Reed Altemus
Heiko I tried to find "Mechanisation takes command" on the web. Very little by Giedeon in English. http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/design_technology/design/File31.htm is just one text which has the title "Mechanisation takes command" but it's by an English scholar who doesn't credit his title to

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-25 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
As a joke Dada is definitely NOT overrated. Some Dada on the other hand was dead serious, like Berlin Dada. Jokes dont have to be funny. Its rather easy to sit in 2000 and

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-25 Thread R.Gancie/C.Parcelli
Heiko Recktenwald wrote: As a joke Dada is definitely NOT overrated. Some Dada on the other hand was dead serious, like Berlin Dada. I'd always been taught, too, to view Dada as the work of hip pranksters who were always on the lookout for a joke. I was startled when I finally read

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-25 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
finally read Hugo Ball's Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary. I was surprised at the depth of sadness directly involved in the movement over I allways think to old style living rooms, from the time before WWi, compared to what Bauhaus etc did. It wasnt changing furnitures alone. Greetings, H.

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-25 Thread Terrence J Kosick
Terrence writes; This is a good point Heiko. The goodness of the roots of reality and depth of meaning always seems to get boiled out by the constant attendance. Why does everything end up like clichés? If anyone read my earlier post of the reminiscences of art school one could easily surmise

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-25 Thread Reed Altemus
Rosalie Heiko If you read Flight Out of Time you'll see the deeply spiritual feeling out of which Dada in Zurich (at least Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings) grew. And when it was over, Ball being very religious lost his mind. RA "R.Gancie/C.Parcelli" wrote: Heiko Recktenwald wrote: As a

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-24 Thread Reed Altemus
Rafael Custodio de Lima wrote: For instance, today I had a class in which the teacher said: -Dada is just an overrated joke -Atonal music began in the 1890s -the first electronic composition was made by Hindemith. -(among others) After that, I had to conclaim my colleagues to warn them

FLUXLIST: Re: Why?

2000-03-23 Thread Rafael Custodio de Lima
For instance, today I had a class in which the teacher said: -Dada is just an overrated joke -Atonal music began in the 1890s -the first electronic composition was made by Hindemith. -(among others) After that, I had to conclaim my colleagues to warn them of these mistakes. It's incredible how