Ricardo Bofill was a Spanish architect who built Xanadu (1971), La Muralla Roja (1973) and Walden 7 (1975).
His work references Gaudí, Palladio and Archigram.
Bofill’s opus is of major significance in European postmodern architecture.
Tag Archives: 1939
RIP Peter Bogdanovich (1939 – 2022)
Peter Bogdanovich was an American director and general film person.
To me, he is an integral part of the Roger Corman phenomenenon.
Of all his films, I have the fondest memories of Paper Moon, I remember the beginning of that film vividly.
Above, a documentary by a certain Adam Hulin.
Happy new year from us.
RIP Marilyn McLeod (1939 – 2021)
Marilyn McLeod was an American singer-songwriter known for such compositions as “Love Hangover” (1976).
RIP Bob Baker (1939 – 2021)
Bob Baker was a a British screenwriter. He was best known for his writing on Wallace and Gromit.
RIP Sonny Chiba (1939 – 2021)
Sonny Chiba was a Japanese actor and martial artist, a contemporary to Bruce Lee in Hong Kong.
I give you the opening title scene of Karate Kiba (1973) and the episode from Japanorama from 2007.
The Karate Kiba sequence has been copied nearly verbatim in Pulp Fiction (1994).
RIP Vladimir Menshov (1939 – 2021)
Vladimir Menshov was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director best-known for his film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979).
RIP Louis Andriessen (1939 – 2021)
Louis Andriessen was a Dutch composer, together with Dick Raaymakers, one of the most important ones of The Netherlands.
I give you De Staat, named after De Staat (Dutch title of The Republic by Plato).
RIP Gérard Fromanger (1939 – 2021)
Gérard Fromanger was a French artist.
With Jean-Luc Godard he made the short subject “Film-tract 1968”.
Photogenic Painting (2000) is an English translation of two texts: “Le peintre et le modéle” (1973) by Gilles Deleuze and “Le désir est partout. La peinture photogénique” (1975) by Foucault.
RIP Karl Wirsum (1939 – 2021)
Karl Wirsum was an American artist, one of the Chicago Imagists, a group known for their grotesquerie, surrealism, and complete uninvolvement with New York art world trends.
In my universe he is famous for illustrating the nobrow essay “Cross the Border — Close the Gap” (1968).
RIP Phil Spector (1939 – 2021)
Phil Spector was an American musician and record producer known for his Wall of Sound sound production.
The Wall of Sound was a very dense sound with little room for details of individual instruments, exemplified in recordings such as “Da Doo Ron Ron” “Be My Baby” or “Baby, I Love You”, all released in 1963.
There is, Phil Spector: He’s a Rebel, a documentary from 1982 on Phil Spector, without his cooperation , in which Albert Goldman is recorded as saying:
“Rock ‘n’ roll is basically institutionalized adolescence. And the bottom line of rock ‘n’ roll is that it’s a baby food industry and Phil found a new formula for baby food.”
I thought that was quite funny.