Re: [Leica] HCB and Geometry

[Slobodan Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>]

Groan! 
Gallic orientalism!
This is enough to reread Celine! 
Slobodan Dimitrov


Oliver Bryk wrote:
> 
> Steve wrote:
> "I seem to remember the man himself said it was about geometry.
> Steve
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> Did someone claim there was a "message" in the work? I missed that one.
> Given that the work is about composition and form, I think message is the
> last thing one would be looking for."
> 
> I quote from the book review by John Banville about which I posted a short
> note about a week ago: "...as everywhere in his work, he has, one might say,
> humanized geometry. Asked about this, he will not comment, but his wife nods
> firm agreement. He ponders awhile. "I don't believe in God," he says, "but I
> do believe in pi." Pen and paper are produced and he dictates some numbers.
> It takes me a moment to recognize the formula for the golden section, the
> mathematical rule of aesthetic balance which has been used by artists since
> antiquity. He smiles his Zen master's smile. He is right, of course:
> everywhere in his work the field of vision - apt phrase! - is portioned out
> according to this formula; his eye divides the peopled world according to
> the rules of the golden section." (The New York Review, July 3, 2003)
> 
> Oliver Bryk
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