Monday, April 4, 2011

Thoughts on Walter Benjamin's essay: The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Jean Arp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Arp

versus
Andre Derain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Derain

and poet August Stramm versus poet Rilke


Guard-Duty
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 A star frightens the steeple cross
a horse gasps smoke
iron clanks drowsily
mists spread
fears
staring shivering
shivering
cajoling
whispering
You!

August Stramm

A Walk
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 My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.


Translated by Robert Bly

Rainer Maria Rilke