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"God is in the details ... and she is a black woman" by Oscar Guayabero

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Joséphine Baker, la cantante y bailarina de cabaret más emblemática del París de los años veinte, influyó en muchos de los artistas y arquitectos del movimiento moderno.«Dios está en los detalles… y es una mujer negra» por Oscar Guayabero «Dios está en los detalles… y es una mujer negra» por Oscar Guayabero

The famous phrase of the French writer Gustave Flaubert "God is in the details" immortalized by Mies van der Rohe (a machine to rivet lapidary phases) has been interpreted as that care in the finishes and the human scale is what gives validity or notTo architecture.

It can also be interpreted in many other forms and on other aspects.For example, often, in history, the details are those that give meaning, or at least, give clues of how to interpret it.It is those details, that some would consider minors, those who usually catch me and those who give part of my amateur researcher time.

Joséphine Baker

One of those details is the effect that Joséphine Baker, the most emblematic cabaret singer and dancer of the 1920s in the 1920s caused within the incipient modern movement,.

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Baker, born in the USA.UU., grew in the period of the worst racist revolts lived in Saint Louis.His father, who played the drum in Honky-Tonk bars abandoned the family, and his mother, who was half black and half Apalache, worked as a laundress to keep his children.

«Dios está en los detalles… y es una mujer negra» por Oscar Guayabero

Little Joséphine started working at age 8 and suffered abuse.With 14 years he had already married and separated twice, and it was his second husband who obtained the surname Baker.

  • In 1922 he joined a dance company;A year later she was already in the choir of the first color work that was represented on Broadway, Shuffle Along.Later he worked at the mythical Cotton Club.

    In 1925 he traveled to Paris and there he finds his place, in a period of interwarBergère starred in some films and ended up taking French nationality.

    But also the actress had an important role as civil rights activist facing the segregationist policies of the time.The artist insisted that her shows be open to the public and during their various tours in the US.UU.He refused to act in places that did not allow the entry of the black public.

    In addition, during World War II, he worked for resistance and using his contacts and invitations to parties in embassies, he obtained information on the movements of the enemy troops that he managed to transmit first to the French authorities and - after the fall of France in Nazis hands -to resistance, using invisible ink in their scores.For his contributions, he was awarded by Charles de Gaulle with the Legion of Honor and the Resistance Medal.

    I adopt a lot of children in the style of Angelina Jolie and ended up ruined and living in Monaco, with the help of Grace Kelly with which she seems to have a great friendship.

  • That's the story, but let's go to details.Baker debuts in Paris with only 19 years.His main number "The wild dance" was interpreted only dressed in a pearl necklace and a skirt made of bananas embedded with bright stones, sometimes a minimum support was put.

    Adolf Loos

    In his number the sexuality of a dance that evoked, the Europeans of the time, an alleged erotic ritual of an still very unknown Africa exploited.Something tribal and primitive that could well resemble what Adolf Loos referred to in his ornament and crime: «The ornament at the service of women will endure forever, whose ornament responds, deep down, to the wild primitive, having an erotic erotic".

    According to Juanjo Lahuerta, the text of Loos "has less to do with the decoration of the buildings that with tattoos, the abalorium and the feathers of the" primitive "and the degenerates: women, pavus, artists and criminals".

    Well, curiously, Adolf Loos was fascinated by a show that collected that degeneration that apparently rejected.So much so that after seeing the Baker dance and coincide at a party, start at their own risk to design a house.

    A place designed to unleash the architect's erotic fantasies with a pool whose back.

    Interestingly, the Viennese architect defined the window as "an element that serves to let the light in, never look" and instead in his project for Baker generates a device in the center of the house for pure voyeurism.

    Le Corbusier

    And if we talk about voyeurs in the Le Corbusier architecture I could not miss.It is known that at home the Bidet was located outside the bathroom and inside the room to be able.

    It turned out that Le Corbusier coincided with Joséphine Baker on a trip returning from South America and there are some photographs that attest to that meeting.In one of them they seem to celebrate a costume party where Le Corbusier does not know exactly what he is disguised and Baker went from Chinese doll.

    In any case, the architect already knew the show of the cabaret noir of which he said: "These shows are a mixture of skyscrapers and jungle elements ... ultramodern and ultraprimitive".

    There is no record that the thing happened to adults, although Le Corbusier made barios sketches of the dancer, some directly erotic.Sometimes, a small wire sculpture is attributed that is actually the work of Calder, another artist who was bewitched by Baker.

    Paul e.Colin

    Despite these escarceos with architects of the modern movement, it was Paul and.Colin, a graphist Art Decó who did have a real sentimental and professional relationship and would be with the artist.

    Colin met Baker at the beginning of his stay in Paris and made for her some of the most beautiful posters and drawings that were made of her.Both shared the passion for cabaret, jazz and fun but also political commitment.

    Both Josephine Baker and Paul Colin received the Croix de Guerre for their courage during the war.Joséphine Baker was in charge of opening the speech of Martin Luther King in Washington after the 1963 and Paul Colin march dedicated many of his posters to pacifist and anti -fascist values.His friendship endured over time, despite the various marriages and bisexuality of the "ebony venus", as it was called.

    In any case, I like to think that the flexibility and the Joie de Vivre of the French cartelist, achieved what the serious and dogmatic modern architects did not achieve, transfer Baker's erotic myth and establish an affective relationship beyond the topics.

    If God is in the details, these are the ones that matter and the main detail is, in this case, that God was, at least for a few years in Paris, a black woman.

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