charles demuth

playing on the long tradition of the exotic female/Other (...)

Charlie - like Elsa, like Rrose -

turns the bourgeois morality that continues to plague much of Dada ass-backward.

 

 

Indeterminate and Inhuman: Georgette Leblanc in "L'Inhumaine"

 

Indeterminate and Inhuman: Georgette Leblanc in "L'Inhumaine" with marks

e r o t i c

 " Thoughts Toward an Aesthetics of Cinema"[1913].

heuristic

Miriam Hansen, America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin) on Cinema and Modernity
in: Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, p.362 ff.

(...) For Kracauer the fascination with the surface phenomena of modern life was simultaneaously a rejection of the discipline of philosophy, in particular the tradition of German idealist philosophy. Theoretical thinking schooled in that tradition, Kracauer felt, was increasingly incapable of grasping a changed and changing reality, a "reality filled with corporeal things and people." Accordingly, Kracauer's despair over the direction of the historical process turns into a despair over the lack of a heuristic discourse (...).

Definition of heuristic in the German Wikipedia:

fairytale

interview with

Marcel L’Herbier about L'Inhumaine in J. A. Fieschi, 1968, a.a.O., S.30.

          
        
     
and this how the movie begins....

http://modjourn.org/journals.html

production of L'Inhumaine

Written by Marcel L'Herbier
Pierre Mac Orlan
Georgette Leblanc

An impressive range of practitioners in different fields of the arts worked on the film, meeting L'Herbier's ambition of creating a film which united many forms of artistic expression. Four designers contributed to the sets. The painter Fernand Léger created the mechanical laboratory of Einar Norsen.^{Léger's contribution to the design of L'Inhumaine, and its relationship to his own film Ballet mécanique, is discussed at length by Standish D. Lawder in The Cubist Cinema (New York: New York )} 
The architect Robert Mallet-Stevens designed the exteriors of the houses of Norsen and Claire Lescot, with strong cubist elements. (-....-) To bind the whole together L'Herbier commissioned the young Darius Milhaud to write a score with extensive use of percussion, to which the images were to be edited.

or;phis;m

Fernand Léger and Marcel Duchamp, as they tended towards abstraction, were also included as Orphists in the writings of Apollinaire

by Fernand Leger with music by George Antheil realized 1924

                   

stairhead

manerist mirror

Antheil was asked to make his Paris debut at the opening of the Ballets suédois, an important Paris social event. He programmed several recent compositions, including the "Airplane Sonata", the "Sonata Sauvage" and "Mechanism". Halfway through his performance a riot broke out, much to Antheil's delight. According to Antheil "People were fighting in the aisles, yelling, clapping, hooting! Pandemonium!... the police entered, and any number of surrealists, society personages, and people of all descriptions were arrested... The riot was filmed and may in fact have been engineered, as the Marcel L'Herbier movie L'Inhumaine needed a riot scene set in a concert hall. In the audience were Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Francis Picabia. Antheil was delighted when Satie and Milhaud praised his music
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Orphism or Orphic Cubism, a term coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, was pioneered by František Kupka, Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay, who relaunched the use of color during the monochromatic phase of Cubism.

 

Sonia Delaunay designed costumes for ^the film: Le Vertige directed by Marcel L'Herbier. 

it was again the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, who was responsible for the sets

 

the mother 
and 
the whore

Orphism (religion)(art)

self

james daugherty (spelled ou below)

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[Photograph of Katherine Dreier, seated, wearing a silk dress and holding a bird cage and a photograph of Marcel Duchamp lighting a cigarette with a bird on his shoulder.]

birdcage

Hans G. Helms Birdcage - 
                                                   73'20.958" for a Composer. Film composition. With John Cage. 1972
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http://youtu.be/sFuHPOMKmt4

The law of contrast, old as the human eye, and on which Seurat judiciously insisted, was promulgated with much clamor, and none of those who flattered themselves the most on their sensitivity had enough of it to perceive that to apply the law of complementaries without tact is to deny it. It is only of value by the fact of automatic application, and only demands a delicate handling of values. It was then that the cubists taught a new manner of regarding light.

INTRODUCTION TO ON THE ART OF THE THEATRE EDWARD GORDON CRAIG 

Robert Mallet-Stevens

                                                                                                                                a slightly distanced take                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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