http://www.jurisich.com/blog rambling words, fragments, disasters and situations Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:19:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 470+ examples of Swiss and German modern book design: Book (design) stories from new typography to Swiss style modernist book design in Germany and Switzerland 1925–1965 (and beyond). Here's a nice example, #51 in the collection, a Swiss survey of Die Neue Architektur by Alfred Roth, first published in 1948, ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/08/treasure-trove-of-modern-swiss-german-book-design/ Another interesting thing I saw at Stanford’s art museum, <a href="http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/NewOrleans.html">Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art</a>: Image: Joseph Cornell (U.S.A., 1903–1972), Radar Astronomy, 1952–56, mixed media Note how ol' Uncle Joe applies his signature to the back of the box: reversed. It looks like he painted ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/08/cornells-backside/ Here mashed together are two details from paintings I saw last week at the small exhibition at Stanford's art museum, Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art: Raoul Dufy (France, 1877–1953), Window at Nice, 1923, detail Right: Jackson Pollock (U.S.A., 1912–1956), Composition (White, Black, Blue and Red on ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/08/raoul-dufy-jackson-pollock-mashup/ Arts & Architecture was a great arts/architecture/music/culture magazine published in the United States from 1945-1967. The magazine always had a great cover that reflected the art and design aesthetics fo the era, and now you can see images of all the covers together on the Arts & Architecture website. Here ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/07/art-and-architecture-magazine/ The Flog is a great art blog published by a French artist named Fette that covers the L.A. art scene in extensive, photographic detail. Says the site: Fette is a french visual artist who currently lives in Los Angeles. She started The Flog in April 2005 as a way to connect ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/07/flogging-art-in-la/ It may be the cliché of the moment, but I just got a new iPhone yesterday, and it's a really great device. I snapped the pic below with the iPhone, then used the great Wordpress for iPhone app to write and publish the whole post directly from the phone -- very ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/07/self-portrait-with-mare-aux-songes/ Found this a couple days ago at the Sacramento Zoo -- click to see a larger version: The kind of beauty that capital improvement campaigns, sadly, usually replace. I should have offered to buy them a new sign if I can have the old one. Maybe I will. http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/07/four-great-little-zoo-sign-mystery-stain-paintings/ Chris King is a writer and musician living in St. Louis, a city born at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Chris has a thing for confluences, both literal and metaphoric -- thus the theme of his blog, Confluence City. This fascination with confluences is something we have ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/07/blogging-while-under-the-confluence/ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book The Black Swan (p. 204), relates this anecdote about Apelles of Kos, a renowned ancient Greek painter from the 4th century BC: Sextus Empiricus retold the story of Apelles the Painter, who, while doing a portrait of a horse, was attempting to depict the foam ... http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/07/foaming-at-the-mouth-over-a-painting/ A couple Crucible-dwelling metal/fire artists, Matisse and Roxie, have created a Flamethrower Shooting Gallery for this year's Burning Man, which debuted recently at The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival in Oakland, California. Here's a nice shot of the sooty aftermath: Via Gizmodo, where they have more photos and a video posted. http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/07/flamethrower-shooting-gallery/