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For their 10th anniversary, Non-Format decided to create a limited-edition set of two posters examining David Bowie’s discography. As any die-hard fan of Bowie’s 1977-79 Berlin Trilogy of albums will know, one of the pop icon’s closest collaborators in the late 1970s was the legendary musician, composer and record producer Brian Eno. In a famous excerpt from his diary, Eno muses about the possibilities of looking at something on a spectrum of two extremes. He refers to this as axis thinking. Axis thinking, he explains, can apply to both the lighthearted and the serious. A haircut, for example, is rarely “neat” or “shaggy,” but somewhere between the two. After the Berlin Wall fell, Eno argues, the polarities of communism and capitalism were “revealed to conceal a host of possible hybrids.”
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Original link: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2013/07/10/less-ziggy-more-stardust/
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