Fields of Inspiration: David Rabinowitch’s Empedoclean Roots

27th July 2012Chinati, Cyril Bailey, David Rabinowitch, David Sedley, Empedocles, Julia Otto, Lucretius, MarfaMinus Plato

The Roman poet-philosopher Lucretius, in his De rerum natura (‘On the Nature of Things’) introduces a discussion (and refutation) of Empedocles’ theory of the Four Elements (or Roots) – Earth, Water, Fire, Air – with a description of his predecessor’s homeland of Sicily (DRN 1. 716-725). David Sedley in his book Lucretius and the Transformation […]

Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Heraclitean Bridge

16th May 2012Chinati, Dan Flavin, David Rabinowitch, Donald Judd, Heraclitus, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ilya Kabakov, John Chamberlain, MarfaMinus Plato

I have recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Marfa, Texas – the home of the Chinati Foundation created by Donald Judd as a permanent site for his own work and that of, among others, Dan Flavin, John Chamberlain, David Rabinowitch and Ilya Kabakov. I am currently writing my next post about my visit, but […]