drawing sounds exploding bells...

animal sounds, made visible by bell's translator

frequency modulation series

print from a reader recorder tape

3/4 inch stick of pentolite exploding

electron diffraction record

a school of herring passing under a brown moon

max ernst - 1965

ocean, drawing - piet mondrian - 1909

second diagram of evolution (notebook b)
charles darwin - 1837

detail from the original diagram of evolution

origin of the species
charles darwin - ca. 1857

first five images in series - the new landscape in art and science - györgy kepes - 1956

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)

abstraction of trees, mondrian

landzicht farm under bluish-grey sky, 1905

geinrust farm in watery landscape, 1905-1906

the grey tree, 1911

composition 10 in black and white, 1915

the classic book: piet mondrian: catalogue raisonné by joop joosten and robert welsh, abrams 1996

(this is research for a video featuring north carolina trees, some big, some small, all put through the alembic of my camera. i asked old mondrian to help out, he told me to copy these nice images, and then put them in water, preferably rain.)