Next in Religious Geography we're considering grids. Is it indeed true that a grid (like New York's famous 1811 one) destroys the experience of unique space (sometimes called place as opposed to space), along with removing any common spaces? Or does use find meaning despite or even in the grid? This painting by Mondrian, "Composition in Black and Gray: Composition with Grid 3: Lozenge Composition" (1919), part of the Cézanne and Beyond exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (and visible in far greater detail here) should raise the question nicely...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Next in Religious Geography we're considering grids. Is it indeed true that a grid (like New York's famous 1811 one) destroys the experience of unique space (sometimes called place as opposed to space), along with removing any common spaces? Or does use find meaning despite or even in the grid? This painting by Mondrian, "Composition in Black and Gray: Composition with Grid 3: Lozenge Composition" (1919), part of the Cézanne and Beyond exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (and visible in far greater detail here) should raise the question nicely...