Archives du mardi 02 août 2005
le mardi 02 août 2005 [n° 282] Art
The backdrop for Mayakovsky's Vladimir Mayakovsky.
A Tragedy painted
by Iosif Shkolnik and Pavel Filonov.
In 1913 Kazimir Malevich was asked to produce a series of costumes and set designs for the "first Futurist opera," entitled Victory over the Sun . The music was by Mikhail Matiushin, and the main text was written by the poet Alexei Kruchenykh. There was also ...
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le mardi 02 août 2005 [n° 276] Culture
"Ce n'est pas le combat conscient des idées qui s'étale devant nous, cela ne se passe jamais ainsi dans la réalité. Ce que nous voyons, ce sont les conflits humains, et au plus profond, entremêlées à eux, il y a des idées en lutte -- elles sont mises en déroute ou sortent victorieuses."
Henrik Ibsen, 1857
Ghosts
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen translated ...
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le mardi 02 août 2005 [n° 281] Poetry
"For modern poetry, since it must be distinguished from classical poetry and from any type of prose, destroys the spontaneously functional nature of language, and leaves standing only its lexical basis"
Roland Barthes, from Writing Degree Zero
Charles Bernstein is recognized internationally as one of the major forces in contemporary poetry and is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters ...
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le mardi 02 août 2005 [n° 212] Alchemy
"Sir Isaac Newton, famous for his revolutionary work in mathematics, optics, gravity and the laws of motion, had a secret hobby.
The papers were rediscovered in the middle of the twentieth century and most scholars now concede that Newton was first an foremost an alchemist. A collection of his notes thought to have been lost 70 years ago reveal his ...
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le mardi 02 août 2005 [n° 280] Alchemy
Ludovicus Vives
"Ludovicus Vives, 1610, in his notes to St. Augustine, says that in his father's time, A.D. 1580, a lamp was found in a tomb, which from the inscription was 1500 years old; it fell to pieces when touched. This Commentator does not follow his master in his denunciation of these lamps, but says they must have been made by ...
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