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THE ATLAS OF THE UNPAINTABLE

Alexander Gorlin

Gorlin
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Architect and author of Kabbalah in Art and Architecture (2013), which reads Newman's zips, Rothko's fields, Louis Kahn's Salk Institute water channel and even Le Corbusier through Lurianic categories.

The maximal version of this wing's thesis, and useful precisely because it goes further than the evidence in places. ⚠ Read him next to Wieseltier: Gorlin shows you how much can be seen through this lens, and Wieseltier shows you what happens when a lens sees everything.
If you scratch even the most rational modernist you will get a wild romantic poet underneath.
rhymes with
sephirahchesed
whyChesed is expansive, generous and hard to stop — the virtue and the risk of this kind of reading.
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gorlin · architecture · kahn · le corbusier · newman · rothko · tzimtzum · 2013
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Alexander Gorlin — Kabbalah in Art and Architecture, the 2017 Norman E. Alexander Lecture directvideo — Alexander Gorlin Kabbalah art architecture Louis Kahn search
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scholarship — Gorlin Kabbalah in Art and Architecture Kahn Newman Rothko tzimtzum search
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