The Society Of The Unheard:
La société des non écoutés** [dba: Holzwege]

"Ah, if you could only understand why we of all people need art ...," but "another kind of art ... an art for artists, for artists only!" (Friedrich Nietzsche, Preface to "the Gay Science", quoted in Giorgio Agamben, "The man without content", p. 7) The audience, the spectators, have a use: their wallets. (BMcC[18-11-46-503])

"We always write an image to someone." (Folon; (BMcC[18-11-46-503]), from memory)

Web art collection

No NFT scamming here!

• True Faith Triptych: The True Faith shall cover the earth in blood
• The irradiation of an American nuclear family☢
• Confessional
• Mail art:
• How to make an envelope[1]         • IBM MVS Control blocks diagram[2] • New Mexico landscape] • St. Francis of data processing[3] • Dog barking • Stars of redemption • Literacy[4] • McDonald's  Too many to count • Commemorating USPS Postmaster Louis DeJoy (see also below) • Ein festa Berg ist unser Gott.... • Lux mentis lux orbis • "It was the word beyond speech"[5]
• Maxwell's Demon [Special Mail art[6]]
• Œdipus's T-shirt Outwit Fate!	ART SHOW HERE
• Portrait of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
• V is for Victory [Covid-19 vaccination poster]
• Le Pavilion d'Une[7] [Architecture design]
• Design for a student apartment[8] [Architecture design]
• Design for a psychotherapist's office
• The Minotaur
• Political correctness cartoon
• Special 2020 philatelic Louis DeJoy commorative issue (see also above)
• Homer Simpson + Coca-Cola = Homer Cola
• Deconstructing Guild House (Robert Venturi, architect)
• A progressive Activist woking his followers
• Campbell's Soup can po[o]p artwork[9]
• "The Last Supper"[10]
• "The Marilyn Museum o fArt (MoMA)
• BMcC MS Paint Kandinsky painting
• Scene from a bris
• "Make America Great Again!" ("Only I can fix it", DJT)
• In exchange for becoming Minotaurs, jock get to copulate	INT'L LOAN SHOW
• Surrealism
• Cat face
• BMcC signature seal
• Peacefu Japanese design webpage
• Knotted letter signature seal
• ⇒ Create your own cartoon!

Haikus

"Less is more." / "God is in the details." (Mies van der Rohe)

Proposed new art movement: Cancelled art

Proposed new art movement for the present (2021) age of politctical correctness Wokism: Take pictures of art objects of humanistic value Wokies and/or political correctnessers find offensive. Put a red slash through them, indicating they have been defaced and defamed, i.e., cancelled. Exhibit the result. Examples: (1) Leon Trotsky cancelled in Copenhagen (1932), (2) Last year cancelled in Marianbad), (3) Thomas who-owned-slaves Jefferson Memorial. Then take pictures of banal and/or threatening things Wokies and/or political correctnessers like and put a red slash through them, indicating they are bad: Have an entire exhibit devoted to: The cancellation of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy: TV Commando Z, and: yet again! ~ Level 2: Make envelopes out of cancelled images, with white background space for the address and put postage stamps on them. Send them through the mail. These artworks will consequently be cancelled again [+2021.12.11; BMcC; MtK.]. Woke / politially correct / pro-Zelensky America is at best ignorant else despicable. +2022.07.03. Anno Zelensky 1.

Favorite artists

• Peter Brueghel the Elder. Paintings full of life (and death), not prudery.
• Marcel Duchamp. Etirp*eacute;z la bourgeoisie! or however it's spelled. Mona Lisa L.H.O.O.Q, Rrose Sélavy!
• Wassily Kandinsky. A realm of pure ideas without downers like Mr. Descartes and Mr. Plato.
• Eugene Atget. Photographed the Paris I'd like to live in just with modern medicine.
• Louis Kahn. Humanist architect and teacher

There are numerous artists I do not like, including Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. There is, however, one who needed to never have existed: Robert Venturi. His Guild House is a sick joke on the aged. He specifically indicts modernist architects of tryng to raise the cultural level of the masses. But the reason he is one of the graat Culture Criminals of the 20th Century is not his destructive ideas per se, but that like syphilis and pneumonic plague, he was contagious. He is one of the causes of Postmodernism and caused significant harm to humanity. Had Mr. Venturi never done anything worse than work as an entry-level Walmart "associate" he would not have been a problem. He was toxic.

BMcC[18-11-46-503] stories and dramas (fictions)

[See also Just so stories.]

• We won the war
• All understood too late
• Zelensky morning
• Little Bunny Foo-Foo Zelensky
• The winner
• 'Tis the season to be stupid...
• Oppenheimer (a 1 man 1 scene play)
• The "BooHoo" song

Samizdat library

• Philosophy and the crisis of European humanity, Edmund Husserl (1935)
• War from the grassroot perspective, Hermann Friedrich Honold (1995-96)
• Harper's Magazine: "A letter on justice and open debate" (+2020.07.07)

Art criticism

I find much art criticism meaningless. It's words about he nonverbal. Or mathematics about sensory experence, which is ~sort of~ analogous to explaining the event of observing in terms of neuron observed. Ther is a categorial disjunction. How much does the thought: "The proposition that the entire human race – consisting of enormous hordes of humanity – would be placed seriously in danger of a fiery eternity characterized by unspeakable torments purely because a man disobeyed a deity by eating a piece of fruit offered him by his wife is inherently incredible." (Steve Allen) weigh in pounds or kilograms?

I have elsewhere said that one of my criteria for judgiung a ceramic craft object is to turn it upside down and examine if thee bottom (the "foot") is finished as well as the parts people more usually look at. This same logic makes me suspicious about automobiles, since, I understand often the body is dropped onto a frame. The car's undercarriage should be as well finished as the "body". Another idea I have her is that a car's body should loo as beautiful when it has been dented as when new.

Back to ceramics. I want nothing to do with "raku" ware. This pottery, for me, as if from the devil: It is often secudutively pretty (like Kabuki theater?), but the surface beauty is easily produced because it's low-fire. Tap on the object with your knuckle and it does not sound solid. So I say: Make your beautiful colors in stoneware or porcelain and then we'll consider it. But Raku, for me, is "cheap", veneer.

Shouldn't a piece of pottery look as good if its broken than when intact? There are limits here: a person's inner organs cannot look as good as their flesh if one rips open the fleah. And a cat without its fur does not look good either. So wishing beauty to go all the way to the root can be going down a vortex.

TzaraHaiku script source ("TzMulti")

using Random
include("WBInclusions")

Version = "026"
if length(ARGS) == 0
    println("\nTzMulti v" * Version * ". Input:  [seedNumber | \"x\"] [text | *filename]\n\n" *
        "    * Take a newspaper.\n    * Take some scissors.\n    * Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.\n" *
        "    * Cut out the article.\n    * Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and\n              put them all in a bag.\n" *
        "    * Shake gently.\n    * Next take out each cutting one after the other.\n    * Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.\n" *
        "    * The poem will resemble you.\n    * And there you are--an infinitely original author of charming sensibility,\n" *
        "              even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.\n    * (Tristan Tzara)")
    exit(16)
end

global ARGS2 = ARGS[2]

if ARGS2[1:1] == "*"
    global ARGS2 = RRead(ARGS2[2 : length(ARGS2)], "asis")
end
    
global Data0 = split(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(strip(ARGS2),
 
        r"[\r\n]" => " "),
        r"\-\-+" => ""),
        r"[^a-zA-Z0-9'\- ]" => ""),
        r"  +" => " "),
        r" (Mr|Mrs|Mx|Dr|Prof|Messrs) " => s" \1. "),
      # r" ( '|' )" => " "),

" ")

global CHARS = 0
for itm in Data0
    global CHARS += length(itm)
end

global Data = copy(Data0)
global DataJoin = join(Data0, " ")

if (global Seed = tryparse(Int32, ARGS[1])) == nothing
    global Seed = 0
    for chr in DataJoin
        global Seed += Int32(chr)
    end
end

global Fortuna = rand(MersenneTwister(Seed), UInt64, length(Data))

global Out = ""

for ix = 1 : 999999
    len = length(Data)
    if len == 1
        break
    end
    thisIndex = (Fortuna[ix] % len) + 1
    global Out *= Data[thisIndex] * " "
    deleteat!(Data, thisIndex)
end
global Out *= Data[1]

println("\n  TzMulti v" * Version * " Seed: " * string(Seed) * "  (" * string(CHARS) * ":" * string(length(Data0)) * 
            ")\n\n  " * HI_YELLOW * DataJoin * HI_END)

println("\n  " * HI_RED * Out *HI_END)

              --- TzaraHaiku script source end ---

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Invenit et fecit

** The present page and what its name may or may not come to represent is inspired by my (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) understanding of Katherine Dreyer's Société Anonyme (which went to Yale). Wikipedia says Société Anonyme originally had the name "The Museum of Modern Art", but the fashionista institution which currently has that name in New York City bullied them instead of respectfully acquiescing to their priority. I dislike The Museum of Modern Art, including the shitty way they treated the Danese wall calendar in their design collection (Details: here) . Because the way you treat details shows your true character, and, as Mies van der Rohe said: "God is in the details", MOMA is godless.

Calendar at left I saw hanging on a wall in the MOMA design collection gallery; calendar at right mine with all the cards and placed correctly.