francisco lópez - machines - elevator bath - 2010
(eeaoa030)
based upon sounds of machinery
(clocks, elevators, various laboratory and factory equipment)

some machines collected, inspired by the recent elevator bath release:

der lauf der dinge - 1987

nicolas-joseph cugnot - steam locomotive - 1770-1771

jacques vaucanson - duck - 1733-1734

pierre jacquet-droz - young writer - c. 1770

vladimir tatlin - letatlin - c. 1930 (flying machine)

alberto giacometti - the captured hand - 1932

(images from k.g. pontus hultén's
the machine as seen at the end of the mechanical age - moma - 1968)

rube goldberg

marcel duchamp
the bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even or the large glass
1915-1923

marcel duchamp - rotary glass plates - 1920

on duchamp:
- marcel duchamp - dialogues with marcel duchamp - da capo press - 1971/1987
- marcel duchamp - the writings of marcel duchamp - da capo press - 1973/1989
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp - the museum of modern art/philadelphia museum of art/prestel verlag - 1973/1989
- marcel duchamp - the box in a valise de ou par marcel duchamp ou rrose selavy - rizzoli - 1989
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: work and life - the mit press 1993
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: a biography - henry holt - 1996
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp rencontre - centre georges pompidou - 1997
- marcel duchamp - duchamp: love and death, even - reaktion books - 1998
- marcel duchamp - duchamp in context: science and technology in the large glass and related works - princeton university press - 1998
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: the art of making art in the age of mechanical reproduction - harry n. abrams - 1999
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: à l'infinitif - the typosophic society - 1999
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: respirateur - staatliches museum schwerin/hatje cantz verlag - 1999
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp - thames & hudson - 1999
- marcel duchamp - affectionately, marcel: the selected correspondence of marcel duchamp - ludion press - 2000
- marcel duchamp - the complete works of marcel duchamp - delano greenidge - 2000
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: étant donnés - yale univ. press - 2009
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: étant donnés - manual of instructions, revised edition - yale univ. press - 2009

angelic language has nothing in common with human language,

classic books (number 2):

imagining language: an anthology, edited by jed jasula and steve mccaffery, mit press 1998



includes:

-richard head and francis kirkman: canting vocabulary, 1665 (compact lexicon of rogue idiolect)

-robert desnos: rrose sélavy, etc., 1923

-john dee and edward kelley: enochian table, 1581-1589 & the enocian call, 1581-1589

-emanuel swedenborg: the angelic language, 1768 (blog entry title)

-thomas more: quatrain in utopian vernacular, 1516

-françois rabelais: from gargantua and pantagruel, 1564 (translated by thomas urquhart and peter le motteaux)

-lewis carroll: stanza of anglo-saxon poetry, 1855

-athanasius kircher: the origin of writing, 1679 & the 72 names of god, 1654 & epilogismus combinationis linearis 1669

-sir thomas urquhart: neaudethaumata, a universal language, 1653
man is called a microcosm, because he may by his conceptions and words contain within him the representatives of what in the whole world is comprehended.

-francis lodwick: the forms of distinctional marks, 1647
the actor (drinker), the action (drinking), the object (drink), the inclination (drunkard), the abstract of the demonstrative adjective (drunkenness), and the place of action (drinking house).

-richard grey: from memoria technica, 1730
(is the last in a long line of artificial memory systems)

-jonathan swift: anglo-latin letter to dr. sheridan, c. 1725 & a project for improving speculative knowledge, 1726 & a litteralial scheme of writing, c. 1725

-marcel duchamp: conditions of a language, 1934

-john cage: writing for the second time through finnegans wake, 1979

-jorge luis borges: funes the memorius, 1942

-juan de celaya: the geometry of the mind, 1525

-jacob boehme: from mysterium magnum, 1623

-victor hugo: a hieroglyphic alphabet, 1839

-sir francis bacon: biliteral cipher, 1613

-john wilkins: the somatic production of sounds, 1668

-christian bök: crystal systems, 1994

-novalis: monologue, c. 1798

(et cetera)

athanasius kircher: epilogismus combinationis linearis

(an example of fraenkel's "stylizations" of mallarmé's poem + michaux)

sir francis bacon: biliteral cipher

john wilkins : the somatic production of sound

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 arp: on my way (1948)
max ernst: beyond painting (1948)
robert motherwell: the dada painters and poets: an anthology (1951)
david-henri kahnweiler: the rise of cubism (1949)
marcel raymond: from baudelaire to surrealism (1949)
georges duthuit: the fauvist painters (1950)
carola gideon-welcker: contemporary sculpture (1955)
marcel duchamp: the bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (1960)
paul klee: the thinking eye + the nature of nature
k. malevich: essays on art (1971)

motherwell/wittenborn also published another series: problems of contemporary art (1945-1954). motherwell edited the documents of twentieth-century art with viking press (1971-1993).
46 titles (47 volumes) total

(title from duchamp's volume)

la mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même

aka [the green box], 1934

links:
1, 2, 3

hour almost close eye one glass side other looked

to be looked at (from the other side of the glass) with one eye, close to, for almost an hour
buenos aires 1918 (moma)

(please forgive my recent inactivity on the l'oscillation de la chèvre aveugle [aka the (bl)ind(o)scillating(g)oat],
i have been: out of town/working on some films/uninspired with watching film and overly inspired with breathing [like duchamp's "breather"]/and finally, working too much, but, i hope to quicken my step soon)

à l'infinitif

front

back

marcel duchamp à l'infinitif published by the typosophic society with typotranslation by richard hamilton and ecke bonk of marcel duchamp's white box (1967)
(another great texas find)


images of the original edition:






some duchamp books:

-marcel duchamp: the box in a valise, de ou par marcel duchamp ou rrose selavy, rizzoli by ecke bonk
-joseph cornell/marcel duchamp...in resonance, hatje cantz by susan davidson, anne d'harnoncourt, ecke bonk, walter hopps, lyda roscoe hartigan, don quaintance and ann temkin
-marcel duchamp, thames & hudson by dawn ades, neil cox and david hopkins
-writings of marcel duchamp, da capo
-dialogues with marcel duchamp, da capo by pierre cabanne
-the complete works of marcel duchamp, delano greenridge editions (or abrams) by arturo schwarz
-marcel duchamp: the art of making art in the age of mechanical reproduction, abrams by francis m. naumann
-marcel duchamp: work and life, mit press by pontus hulten
-marcel duchamp: respirateur, hatje cantz publishers by gerhard graulich, herbert molderings, and kornelia von berswordt-wallrabe
-dialogues: duchamp, cornell, johns, rauschenberg, dallas museum of art by dorothy kosinski
-duchamp: a biography, henry holt & company by calvin tomkins
-the bride and the bachelors: five masters of the avant-garde, penguin by calvin tomkins
-duchamp in context: science and technology in the large glass and related works, princeton university press by linda dalrymple henderson
-affectionately, marcel: the selected correspondence of marcel duchamp, ludion
-marcel duchamp, prestel (moma & philadelphia museum of art) by anne d'harnoncourt and kynaston mcshine
-manual of instructions for etant donnés, philadelphia museum of art
-etant donnés: 1 la chute d'eau; 2 le gaz d'eclairage, reflections on a new work by marcel duchamp, philadelphia museum of art by anne d'harnoncourt and kynaston mcshine
-duchamp: love and death, even, reakton books by juan antonio ramírez
-marcel duchamp: rencontre, centre george pompidou by alain jouffroy