{"id":49216,"date":"2016-03-14T03:51:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T03:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49216"},"modified":"2016-03-14T03:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T03:51:45","slug":"carambolages-huzzah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49216","title":{"rendered":"Carambolages, huzzah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a brilliant new exhibition breaks the usual museum rules to provoke prodigious &#038; repeated leaps of imagination ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages-Dominos.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages-Dominos.png\" alt=\"Carambolages Dominos\" width=\"600\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages-Dominos.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages-Dominos-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cath Styles<\/strong>, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/semblnet.org\"><strong>Sembl<\/strong> games<\/a> are closely related to my own <strong>HipBone<\/strong> variants on <strong>Hermann Hesse<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Glass-Bead-Game-Magister-Novel\/dp\/031227849\">Glass Bead Game<\/a>, recently pointed me to an exhibition called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandpalais.fr\/fr\/article\/carambolages-toute-lexpo\">Carambolages<\/a> that opened recently at the Grand Palais, Galleries Nationales, 3, avenue du General Eisenhower, Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Strolling their website, I was struck by this double image, which in <strong>HipBone<\/strong> terms would be called a <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong>, or a <strong>Sembl<\/strong> in Cath&#8217;s <strong>Sembl<\/strong> game:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages.png\" alt=\"Carambolages\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carambolages-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(left) Sword, Kiribati, Micronesia Islands, Oceania, sd, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly<br \/>\n(right) Bertrand Lavier, Black &#038; Decker, 1998 collection Giuliana and Tommaso Setari<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears, indeed, that the exhibit in question features a <strong>Domino game<\/strong> of Sembls or DoubleQuotes &#8212; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EuM7oTmkXJk?list=PL9LWAQYUI74syo3xkj_Ba7oJluhOO3Wnz\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating &#8212; and definitely a notable step in the expanding history of <strong>bead game variants<\/strong> &#8212; which I view, among other things, as an <strong>art movement<\/strong> that has yet to be written up as such. <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, <strong>Jean-Hubert Martin<\/strong>! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boutiquesdemusees.fr\/fr\/catalogues-exposition\/carambolages\/9892.html\">catalogue<\/a> will no doubt be as close as I can get physically, but I&#8217;m all the way with you in spirit&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bonne id\u00e9e, bon chance!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a brilliant new exhibition breaks the usual museum rules to provoke prodigious &#038; repeated leaps of imagination ] . ** Cath Styles, whose Sembl games are closely related to my own HipBone variants on Hermann Hesse&#8216;s Glass Bead Game, recently pointed me to an exhibition called Carambolages that opened recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,385,1007,526,627,52,529,912,624,678,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-history","category-cath-styles","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-france","category-games","category-glass-bead-game-2","category-hipbone-games","category-sembl","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49216"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49231,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49216\/revisions\/49231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}