Arp, On my way

Arp, On my way

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Titel:: Arp, On my way

Untertitel:: poetry and essays 1912-1947

Umfang:: 147 S.

Sammlung:: Bücher

Dokumenttyp:: Monografie

Signatur:: DADA I:32

Persistenter Identifier:: 19503

Verantwortlichkeitsangabe:: Robert Motherwell

Erscheinungsort:: New York; Zürich

Verlag:: Wittenborn, Schultz Inc.

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1948

Ausgabenbezeichnung:: [Electronic ed.]

Dimensionen (Quelle):: 25,5 x 19 cm

Sprache:: Englisch; Französisch; Deutsch

Personenschlagwort:: Arp, Hans;Motherwell, Robert;Rand, Paul

Verantwortlichkeitsangabe:: Robert Motherwell

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Sammlung:: Bücher

Dokumenttyp:: Monografie

Strukturtyp:: Kapitel

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Titel:: The measures of all things

Sammlung:: Bücher

Dokumenttyp:: Monografie

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35 The measure of all things Man behaves as if he had created the world and could play with it. Pretty much at the beginning of his glorious development he coined the saying that man was the measure of all things. Then he quickly went to work and turned as much of the world as he could upside down. The Venus de Milo lies shat tered on the ground. Man has measured with the measure of all things, him self, measured and presumed. He has tailored and pruned away at beauty. This cutting to measure gave rise to a fashion shop, the fashion shop gave rise to madness in all its forms. Confusion, unrest, nonsense, insanity and frenzy dominate the world. Foetuses with geometric double heads, human bodies with yellow hippopotamuses heads, fan-shaped monsters with trunks like ele phants, stomachs with teeth on crutches, corpulent or emaciated pyramids with dragging feet and tears in their eyes, clods of earth with sex organs, etc., have appeared in painting and statuary. Beauty has not vanished beneath the ruins of the centuries When the personality, the intellect, philosophy arose from the legendary depths of mythical humanity, when nature was discovered by man, when “the earth, the wavy sea, the moist air and the Titan Ether,” were solemnly sung, beauty dwelt naked among men. In every century beauty changed. Beauty did not vanish beneath the ruins of the centuries, it vanished into the Maya, into the mirage. So many rare and priceless garments had been showered upon her, she no longer knew in which to show herself. Which is the original image of beauty? Which is the image “of beauty’s gushing fountain, the picture that flows from the source . . . ”? Is it the naked corporeality of the Greeks, is it the disguise, the veil, the pageant of the Renais sance, is it the disembodied yearning of Gothic, is it the cube and the sphere, is it the love and the harmony of which Empedocles said: “There were no two arms extending from a trunk, nor were there feet or swift knees or organs of procreation; there was a sphairos the same in all its aspects.” Deception, appearance, artifice Man became a childish demiurge, a childish creator. In his megalomania, he wanted to create God and the world a second time. A loathsome bickering

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