I am reading The
Bauhaus Group:
Six Masters of
Modernism
by Nicholas Fox Weber. I forgot
Tom Lehrer wrote a song about Alma Mahler.
Didn’t she have an affair with Walter Gropius?
Oh, look. There’s Paul Klee. He cooked with relish
the inner organs of beasts and fowls. Wassily and Nina Kandinsky
had a son who died of malnutrition. Mies van der Rohe’s most famous
invention was his own name. Josef and Anni Albers had a good marriage.
Brenda studied weaving with Edwina Bringle at Penland and I was Jack Neff’s
potter’s helper.
Penland always reminded me of
Without the happenings.
I used to go to the Art Institute in
Albers’ “Homage to the Square” every time I was in town. The last time
I had a nervous breakdown and ended up in a VA mental hospital.
I’d been on a three-week running drunk, living on whiskey
and bean dip, polka music and men’s magazines.