Mondrian in this context refers to the cube shapes I associate with his work
and office tower/high rise lives lived by most today.
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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
To: Ed Weick
Cc: Cordell, Arthur: DPP; Ray E. Harrell; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: War, Confucious and the CBD -- Mondrian and Kafka
Date: Friday, July 23, 1999 8:03PM
Ed Weick wrote:
>
> >And I would guess that in xxx years from now people will look back on the
> >commuters, subway riders and busy busy people and say what? You mean
people
> >went into a Kafka/Mondrian environment and parroted the party line just
to
> >get paid. No wonder there is so little incentive to break the work/income
> >nexus.
> >
> >arthur > ----------
>
> Was it not always thus? People do not recognize that they are living in a
> Kafka/Mondrian environment nor are they likely to in future.
[snip]
May I ask what Mondrian has to do with Kafka? The Kafka-[ab]world
is all too much with us (I've spent much of the past year in a
couple of the less extreme places where it is flourishing today
on earth).
But my understanding of Mondrian is that he was a kind of
"mystic", and that the "austerity" of his art (not that his
last few paintings, e.g., "Broadway Boogie-woogie", are
all that austere!) was an expression of hopes and a vision
of a good life, not fears and "consumption".
I am not an expert on Mondrian (with one or two "a"'s in the
last syllable), but I do find his paintings *hopeful*
for a world of light (both illumination -- "Lux mentis
lux orbis" -- and lightness, e.g., Nietzsche's
notion that we need to "overcome the spirit of
gravity").
\brad mccormick
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