76. About the Photographs of the Construction

GA 246/1918-06-30/p024 ·1918-06-30 · English High

Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

This is not the case with windows. Something new was also tried there, namely glass etching. They are not glass windows, as has been done up to now, but simply monochrome glass surfaces have been used, where the layers are scratched out of the monochrome glass with a pencil, so that the whole form of the picture is etched into the glass. This means that the pane of glass in question is not a work of art - only when the sun shines through. So the idea is that the work of art is created from what you have etched with the sunlight shining through. That is where the work of art is created. The glass panes are colored. And there is depicted, again depicted, the whole mystery that is formed in the universe: The dreaming human being, the sleeping human being, the waking human being. You will be able to feel that. So that the artistic [gap in the shorthand]

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