Thinkers of Space in Their Working Spaces

It's been a while, but here's a reblog from Polis for you, a site worth reblogging:

Walter Benjamin, perhaps searching fragments in archives for “Some Motifs on Beadelaire”

at the Bibliotheque National de France, Paris.

Martin Heidegger, perhaps doing a final review of Building Dwelling Thinking in his office

Francois Baudrillard, perhaps taking break after writing The Beaubourg Effect.

Richard Sennett, perhaps pondering identity in his working space.

Michel Foucault in his office, perhaps submerged in Panopticism.

Credits: Image of Benjamin, by Gisele Freund, Heiddeger by Pillippe Lacou-Labarthe, Image of Sennet by the NYT, Image of Baudrillard by J. Lane, Image of Foucault from Portail Michel Foucault.

Measuring Space

Images from the top:

William Forsythe, Lectures from improvisation technologies, 2011.

Rudolf Von Laban, Gammes Dynamosphériques, séquence de mouvement “A” 

Rudolf Von Laban, Gammes Dynamosphériques, séquence de mouvement “A” et “B” 

Rudolf Von Laban, Choreutics, an “analysis of forms in movement”. The three plans 

All images from Danse et architecture. Nouvelle de danse 42/43. Editions Contredanse

"Behind the exploration of more or less explicit ties between dance and visual arts in the 20th century, the recent exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris “Danser sa vie” hides a powerful investigation on the nature of space and the evolution of its representation through the body." 

Images and text via microcities.net , where you can read the whole article and see more photos.

Plans (which aren't really plans)

Images from the top:
Ellsworth Kelly, One Stroke 1959 (via artspotting)
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism With Eight Rectangles 1915 (via wikiart)
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, from hover series, 1996 (via bombmagazine)
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (Big Dipper), state I (via moma.org)
Robert Morris, Philadelphia Labyrinth 1974 (via wikiart)

Constructing New York

Dóra Maurer Tracing Space

Dóra Maurer 

Tracing Space I, Tracing Space II, and Plan 1979

Gelatin silver prints and graphite

Since the 1970s, Maurer has explored the nature of space and movement though the use of serial sequences of images, signs, and language. Working in photography, film, and graphic design, she makes art based on mathematical and conceptual processes, often reversing, repeating, and repositioning objects for the camera. In Tracing Space I, II and Plan, the artist applied this serial process of observation to her studio, moving around the space while photographing it. The pictures, presented with her plan for taking them, reveal the connection between structure (or intent) and spontaneity (what the camera actually recorded). Maurer’s process–oriented oeuvre unites the concrete and the conceptual in a manner that suggests the centrality of perspective—in art, as in life.

Text from moma.org

Space defining drawing

Some more or less abstract space defining drawings for you: 

Robert Maki, Obsidian, 1985

David Hockney

Richard Aldrich

Zbigniew Warpechowski - Drawing in the Corner, 1971

Foto: Ramón Masats - Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1960