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Getting SortedHartmut Abendschein lives and works in Bern (Switzerland). Latest Publications: „Author DNA“, Edition Haus am Gern (2019). „mn ltztr krnz ei ee a“ edition taberna kritika (2019), „Precision and Recall“. Excerpts in: perspektive 96+97 (2019). „nicht begonnenes fortsetzen. Text, Kontur, Schatten“, edition taberna kritika (2017). More: abendschein.ch, twitter.com/etkbooks

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HARTMUT ABENDSCHEIN

GETTING SORTED

Rekombinationsdichtung derFarbweltordnung von Werner und Syme

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Anthers of Saffron Crocus. Zircon.

Spots on Largs Wings of Tyger Moth. Breast of Pochard Duck.Back of Petals of Purple Hepatica. Yenite Mica

Rhynchites Nitens Back of the Christmas Rose. Yellow Orpiment.

Egg of largest Blue bottle or Flesh Fly. Back of the Petals of Blue Hepatica. Wood Tin.

Back of Tussilage Leaves. Uran Mica.Water Ousel. Breast and upper Part of Back of Water Hen.

Back Parts of Gentian Flower. Uran Mica.

Bark of Ash Tree. Turquois, Flour Spar.

Berry of Deadly Night Shade Sulphur

2

Neck and Breast of Red Grouse. Berry of Fuchsia Coccinea. Streak of Red Orpiment.

Black of Red and Black West Indian Peas. Spinel.

Wing Feathers of Jay. Blue Lilac. Serpentine.

Head of Black headed Gull. Borrage. Semi Opal.

Under Side of lower Wings of Orange tip Butterfly. Brown Disk of common Marigold. Semi Opal.

Back of blue Titmouse Canterbury Bell, Campanula Persicifolia. Schorlite. Calamine.

Larva of large Water Beetle. Chesnuts. Saxon Top ax.

Lower Wings of Tyger Moth. Common Garden Rose. Red Orpiment.

3

Beauty Spot on Wing of Mallard Drake. Common Marigold, Seedpod of Spindle-tree. Red Cobalt Ore.

Mole. Tail Feathers of Black Cock. Corn Poppy. Cherry. Red Antimony Ore.

Throat of Blue Titmouse. Dark Crimson Officinal Garden Rose. Pyrope.

Veinous Blood. Dark Streaks on Leaves of Cayenne Pepper. Precious Garnet.

Dead Leaves of green Panic Grass. Precious Garnet.

Guillemot Wing Coverts of Black Cock. Deep Parts of Flower of Saffron Crocus. Porcelain Jasper.

Largest Black Stug Disk of Rubeckia. Porcelain Jasper.

4

Breast of Lapwing Dried Lavender Flowers. Porcelain Jasper.

Neck of Mallard Female Spike of Catstail Reed. Porcelain Jasper.

Breast of Bird of Paradise. Flax flower. Porcelain Jasper.

Stormy Petril. Wing Coverts of black Cock. Forehead of Foumart. Flower of deadly Nightshade. Porcelain Jasper.

Fotiage of Lignum vitœ. Porcelain Earth.

Fresh Wood ashes Pale coloured Sulphur.

Elytra of Meloe Violaceus. General Appearance of Grass Fields. Sweet Sugar Pear Pale Braxilian Topax.

Chrysomela Goettingensis. Grape Hyacinth, Gentian.Oriental Ruby.

Middle Parts of Feathers of Hen Pheasant, and Wing coverts of Grosbeak. Great Fennel Flower. Oliven Ore

Outside of Quills of Terico. Greenish Parts of Nonpareil Apple. Oliven Ore

Breast of Pochard, and Neck of Teal Drake. Growberry.Obsidian

5

Mark on Throat of Red-throated Diver. Hawthorn Blossom. Natrolite.

Back of Nut-hatch. Hazel Nuts. Mountain Wood.

Breast of Emerald crested Manakin Hemimeris. Buff Hibiscus.Mineral Pitch.

Moor Buzzard. Hepatica. Limestone

Head and Neck of Male Kestril. Indian Cress. Light red Cinnaber.

Light Parts of Spots on the under Wings of Peacock Butterfly.Large red Oriental Poppy, Red Parts of red and black Indian Peas. Lepidolite.

Large Wild Convolvulus. Lepidolite

Head of Pochard, Wing coverts of Sheldrake. Largest Purple Auricula. Lenticular Ore.

Larkspur. Iron Flint.

Light Brown Spots on Guinea-Pig, Breast of Hoopoe.Love Apple. Iron Flint, and common Jasper.

Head of Pintail Duck Marigold Apple. Iron Earth.

6

Light Parts of the Margin of the Wings of Devil’s Butterfly.Musk Flower, or dark Purple Scabious. Hyacinth.

Head of the Cock Gold-finch. Nonpareil Apple from the Wall. Hornblende

Upper Side of the Wings of small blue Heath Butterfly. Oat Straw. High coloured Sulphur.

Tail of small Long-tailed Green Parrot. Old Stems of Hawthorn. Heavy Spar, Limestone.

Scarabœus Nobilis. Parts of White and Purple Crocus.Granular Limestone.

Eyes of the largest Flesh Fly. Peach Blossom. French Porcelain Clay.

Plum. Fluor Spar.

Beauty Spot on Wing of Teal Drake. Polyanthus Narcissus.Fluor Spar.

7

Purple Aster Fluor Spar.

Raspberry, Cocks Comb, Carnation Pink. Fluor Spar.

Quill feathers of the Robin. Red Lilac, Pale Purple Primrose.Fluor Spar.

Neck of Eider Drake Red on the golden Rennette Apple.Flint.

Papilio Argeotus. Azure Blue Butterfly. Red on the Naked Apple. Flint.

Back, and tail Coverts Wood Pigeon. Red Tulip, Rose Offici-nalus. Flint.

Gallstones. Ripe Coalmar Pear. Irish Pitcher Apple.Figure Stone.

Red Spots of the Lygœus Apterus Fly. Ripe Pound Pear. Hypnum like Saxifrage. Epidote Olvene Ore.

8

Animal and Shell of common Water Snail. Scarlet Leadington Apple. Emerald.

Phalœna, Margaritaria. Sea Kale, Leaves of Leeks in Winter.Egyptian Jasper.

Lower Parts of Neck of Bird of Paradise. Shrubby Goldylocks. Derby shire Spar.

Gold Fish lustre abstracted. Shrubby Pimpernel. Dark Cinnaber

Backs of black headed and Kittiwake Gulls. Small Fennel Flower.Dark Braxilian Topax.

Snow-Drop. Crysoprase.

Phalœna Viridaria. Stamina of Bluish Purple Anemone.Crysolite.

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Under Side of Wings of Green Broom Moth. Stamina of Honey-suckle. Copper Green.

Scarlet Ibis or Curlew, Mark on Head of Red Grouse.Stamina of Single Purple Anemone. Common Opal.

Egg of Thrush. Stamina of the large White Cistus.Common Calcedony.

Red Coral. Stems of Black Currant Bush. Clay Slate, Wacke.

Stems of the Barberry. Cinnaber.

Breast of the Cock Bullfinch. Style of the Orange Lily.Chalk and Tripoli.

Tail Coverts of Golden Pheasant. Sweet-scented Violet.Ceylanite

10

Light Spots of the upper Wings of Peacock Butterfly.Thick leaved Cudweed, Silver-leaved Almond. Carara Marble and Calc Sinter.

Vent converts of Pied Wood-Pecker. Under Disk of decayed Leaves of None-so-pretty. Calc Sinter.

Breast of Pied Wag tail. Under Disk of Wild Rose Leaves.Brown Blende.

Upper Disk of Leaves of woody Night Shade. Blue Sapphire.

Vent coverts of White Rump. Upper Disk of Yew Leaves. Blue Copper Ore.

Common Weasel. Light Parts of Feathers on the Back of the Snipe. Variegated Horse-Shoe Geranium. Blue Copper Ore.

11

Siskin. Various Coloured Snap dragon. Blue Copper Ore.

Yellow Parts of large Dragon Fly. White Currants. Blue Copper Ore from Chessy.

Breast of the Robin round the Red. White Geranium or Storks Bill. Blue Copper Ore

Brimstone Butterfly. White Hamburgh Grapes. Blue Copper Ore

The Neck Ruff of the Golden Pheasant. Belly of the Warty Newt. Wild Primrose Black Cobalt ochre.

Body of Silk Moth. Yellow Jasmine. Beryl.

Crest of Golden crested Wren. Yellow Tulip. Cinque foil.Beryl.

Large Wasp or Hornet. Beryl.

Breast of long tailed Hen Titmouse. Beryl

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Male of the Lebellula Depressa. Basalt.

Streak from the Eye of the King Fisher. Azure Stone or Lapis Lazuli.

Human Skin. Axinite, Rock Cristal.

Polar Bear. Arragonite.

Amethyst.

Vent Coverts of Red Start. Actynolite Prase.

Wings of Goldfinch. Canary Bird. Actynolite Beryl.

Breast of Teal Drake

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Head of Golden Pheasant.

Vent Parts of Tail of Bird of Paradise. Pale Canary Bird.

Inside Quill-feathers of the Kittiwake.

White of the Human Eyeballs. Junction of the Neck and Back of the Kittiwake Gull.

Breast of the black headed Gull.

Vent Coverts of Golden crested Wren.

Egret.

Egg of Grey Linnet.

Breast of White or Screech Owl.

MATERIALS

How to

1. Bestimmung der Color Hex Codes der Farbmuster

2. Entfernung der Farbnamen, Farbmuster und Nummerierung

3. Sortierung aller Zeilen nach Hex Code A-Z

4. Beibehaltung der „Animal“-Zeilen als Zeilenstart

5. Einzelsortierung der „Vegetable“-Zeilen von A-Z

6. Einzelsortierung der „Mineral“-Zeilen von Z-A

7. Rekonstruktion der Gruppen nach Grössen

8. Satz der Gruppen auf jew. Einzelseite

Diese Arbeit soll vor allem auf die Poetizität der sprachlichen Bezeichnung bzw. Beschreibung von Farben abzielen. Durch das Sortierungs- und Rekombinationsverfahren werden allerdings die Farbreferenzen und Querbeziehungen in der Tier, Pflanzen- und Mineralwelt aufgelöst und neu justiert. In Beziehung stehen damit nicht mehr farbverwandte Objekte aus verschiedenen Bereichen, was die intendierte Primärdeutung des Textes beeinflusste, d.h. eine wie auch immer gelagerte Primärdeutung, die nur eine poetische sein kann, muss nun selbst von der Leserschaft geleistet werden.

Verwendung der Texte (Faksimile1) aus

WERNER’S NOMENCLATURE OF COLOURS, WITH ADDITIONS, ARRANGED SO AS TO RENDER IT HIGHLY USEFUL TO THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Morbid Anatomy.ANNEXED TO WHICH ARE EXAMPLES SELECTED FROFROFR M WELL-KNOWN OBJECTS IN THE ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, AND MINERAL KINGDOMS.

BYPATRICK SYME, FLOWER-PAINTER, EDINBURGH;PAINTER TO THE WERNERIAN AND CALEDONIANHORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES.SECOND EDITION.EDINBURGH:PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH;AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON.1821.

sowie der transkribierten Version unter Darwin Onine2.

Im späten 18. Jahrhundert entwickelte der Mineraloge Abraham Gottlob Werner ein standardisiertes Farbschema, das es ihm ermöglichte, selbst die subtilsten chromatischen Unterschiede mit konsistenter Terminologie zu beschreiben. Sein Entwurf wurde dann von Patrick Syme angepasst und mit Beispielen aus

1 https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012743312

2 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=A704&viewtype=text

Flora und Fauna angereichert. Im vorfotografischen Zeitalter mussten fast alle visuellen Details über das geschriebene Wort erfasst werden, und wissenschaftliche Beobachter konnten sich keine Zweideutigkeiten in ihren Beschreibungen leisten. Werners Handbuch wurde zu einer unschätzbaren Quelle für Naturforscher und Anthropologen, einschließlich Charles Darwin, der es verwendete, um Farben in der Natur während seiner bahnbrechenden Reise auf der HMS Beagle zu identifizieren.