open tabs, week 5

first, a reminder that bookmarks pertaining to work going on in seminar can be found at
405F19

I have communicated about some of these links/references either in my comments to posts on this blog, or directly by e-mail

all design-related bookmarks at pinboard

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during a discussion of "alphabetical" order, we talked about alternative kinds of ordering and classification.

These included thematic classifications, employing the form of
Venn Diagrams

Roget's Thesaurus is also organized thematically.
see also the Visual Thesaurus which, however, hides its categories.

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Christian Marclay, The Clock (2010-2011)

three minute excerpt at youtube
discussion of film, by Christian Marclay

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on Cy Twombly's sculptures —

Lyrical in their pitiful brutality, Twombly’s sculptures are about time, remembrance and loss; they want nothing to do with contemporary sculpture’s ubiquitous manner of dominating space and technical/engineering ingenuity, as trumpeted by conceptual giants from Richard Serra to Antony Gormley to Olafur Eliasson.

“I would like to think in the sculptures there is a tendency towards the fundamental principle in Homer’s world that poetry belongs to the defeated and to the dead . . . of finding the memory of something that has vanished and left no trace of itself,” Twombly said. Magnificently and improbably, in a postwar diction of fragments shored against the ruins, he returned sculpture to its original memorial function: affecting, romantic, defiant.

ex “Cy Twombly’s sculpture: rhapsodic, ramshackle and white”
The great painter’s sculptural works combine classicism with trash — and take centre stage in a London show
Jackie Wullschlager. FT Weekend. 20 September 2019

possibly accessible here
(you may need to answer some marketing questions)

The essay is a review of the Twombly sculpture show at Gagosian London.