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Comet Lovejoy's Tail & Dada-like Needle
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While working on my budding Freytag-:Loringhoven-related project "From 1900 Dachau to 1917 New York Dada," I chanced upon Fritz Helmut Hemmerich's Astro-Pic of Comet Lovejoy's closest approach to Earth on April 23, 2017 (L). Comparing the comet's rather fuzzy tail to the ultra-sharp depiction of a needle's eye (R), he had - likely unwittingly - created one of those visual Dada puns based on "found objects." A good exam,ple for this is Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's sculpture of a "ready-made" plumning piece, which she irreverently titled "GOD." She created it in 1917 within the context of the short-lived NY dada movement.. Images adapted from: | ||||
| NOTE: Like the inaugural "Starry Night" webpage in the NASArt Gallery, this one is dedicated to my friends Hans & Kathi Braun in Trier | HOME -- gd 11jun2017 | |||
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