{"id":15457,"date":"2014-09-20T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-evolution-of-culture-is-synonymous-with-the\/"},"modified":"2014-09-20T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:00:22","slug":"the-evolution-of-culture-is-synonymous-with-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-evolution-of-culture-is-synonymous-with-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Adolf Loos (1870\u20131933), from <em>Ornament and Crime<\/em> (1908)<\/p>\n<p>Adolf Loos (1870\u20131933), from\u00a0<em>Ornament and Crime<\/em>\u00a0(1908)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/m9NBr6xZOSONAKJHlk7CkkQ\">reichsstadt<\/a>, if you haven\u2019t read already \u2013\u2013 this will probably leave you with thoughts on how to perhaps think about the \u201cnew\u201d minimalism? Nietzsche made fun of the whole turn towards simplicity in dress (without making fun of dandies) as indicative of intellectual prowess. It\u2019s \u201cFashion and Modernity\u201d in<em>\u00a0Human, All to Human.<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gwu.edu\/~art\/Temporary_SL\/177\/pdfs\/Loos.pdf\">&ldquo;Ornament and Crime&rdquo;<\/a> is a great essay, but when it comes to his dismissal of ornamentation as \u201cprimitive\u201d\/given the fascination with anthropology\/the ways anthropology has been done\u2026it squicks me out. Besides the whole \u201churrr durrr durrr isn\u2019t lack of ornament still a form of ornamentation lulz.\u201d schpiel.\u00a0There\u2019s also an article by Anna Chave called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aaaaarg.org\/upload\/anna-c-chave-minimalism-and-the-rhetoric-of-power-1.pdf\">&ldquo;Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power&rdquo;<\/a>\u00a0David Batchelor does an amazing job of talking about the difference between minimalism-as-understood-in-the-art-world &amp; minimalism-as-shorthand in relation to colour. It\u2019s in \u201cChromophobia\u201d, where he looks at the fear\/distrust of colour. There\u2019s a great primer on colour &amp; interiors &amp; chromophobia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/color-chromophobia-and-colonialism-some-historical-thoughts-185710\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I\u2019ve found less about minimalism \u201cas a lifestyle\u201d, and more about it as an artistic\/musical\/sculptural\/architectural practice. Although asceticism may be another way to filter minimalism here. I mean, the class bent is pretty obvious. Ditto a weird underlying sense of orientalism (a fascination with the purity of \u201cJapanese design\u201d), OR that whole Bauhaus\/Scandanavian thing. Ditto the whole cleanliness &amp; order thing. I would wonder about the relationship between minimalism &amp; computers\/computer programming\/computer programming language\/mathematics. Or even how minimalism gives off the appearance of being \u201ctimeless\u201d\/\u201dof the future\u201d\/\u201deternal\u201d. Certainly, the objects betray themselves by very virtue of what they\u2019re made from\/construction techniques, etc. Maybe I have a bad eye, but there are times when minimalism feels atemporal. \u2026I have to think about that more, because I\u2019m already disagreeing with myself.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sylvides.tumblr.com\/\">sylvides<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use. Adolf Loos (1870\u20131933), from Ornament and Crime (1908) Adolf Loos (1870\u20131933), from\u00a0Ornament and Crime\u00a0(1908) reichsstadt, if you haven\u2019t read already \u2013\u2013 this will probably leave you with thoughts on how to perhaps think about the \u201cnew\u201d minimalism? Nietzsche made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-41j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}