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  1. 🎭🤲 Two performers sculpt their own faces with clay to #experiment with expression.

    Without speaking, they smash and reshape the material to change their appearance in a playful study of identity. In 1977, the Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz brought this metaphoric skit to the first season of The Muppet Show.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/duel-of-the-cl

    #1970s #20thcentury #creativity #imagination #kids #performance #sculpting #surrealism #tv #theater #tksst #video

  2. 🎭🤲 Two performers sculpt their own faces with clay to #experiment with expression.

    Without speaking, they smash and reshape the material to change their appearance in a playful study of identity. In 1977, the Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz brought this metaphoric skit to the first season of The Muppet Show.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/duel-of-the-cl

    #1970s #20thcentury #creativity #imagination #kids #performance #sculpting #surrealism #tv #theater #tksst #video

  3. 🎭🤲 Two performers sculpt their own faces with clay to #experiment with expression.

    Without speaking, they smash and reshape the material to change their appearance in a playful study of identity. In 1977, the Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz brought this metaphoric skit to the first season of The Muppet Show.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/duel-of-the-cl

    #1970s #20thcentury #creativity #imagination #kids #performance #sculpting #surrealism #tv #theater #tksst #video

  4. 🎭🤲 Two performers sculpt their own faces with clay to #experiment with expression.

    Without speaking, they smash and reshape the material to change their appearance in a playful study of identity. In 1977, the Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz brought this metaphoric skit to the first season of The Muppet Show.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/duel-of-the-cl

    #1970s #20thcentury #creativity #imagination #kids #performance #sculpting #surrealism #tv #theater #tksst #video

  5. 🎭🤲 Two performers sculpt their own faces with clay to #experiment with expression.

    Without speaking, they smash and reshape the material to change their appearance in a playful study of identity. In 1977, the Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz brought this metaphoric skit to the first season of The Muppet Show.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/duel-of-the-cl

    #1970s #20thcentury #creativity #imagination #kids #performance #sculpting #surrealism #tv #theater #tksst #video

  6. “[Edwin Muir’s] travels in the 1920s immediately after the end of World War One, and again at the end of World War Two, tell a story of Europe itself at critical points in its history”

    —Dr Margery Palmer McCulloch, on the OUP blog

    10/10

    blog.oup.com/2017/05/edwin-mui

    #Scottish #literature #history #Europe #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney

  7. One foot in Eden still, I stand
    And look across the other land.
    The world’s great day is growing late,
    Yet strange these fields that we have planted
    So long with crops of love and hate…

    —Edwin Muir, “One Foot in Eden”

    8/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney

  8. Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long
    Through time and never found eternity,
    Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill,
    You should have fled our ever-dying song…

    —Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods”

    7/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney

  9. “What is remarkable is that Muir did not become a social realist, like WH Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, & other related British poets… who didn’t know anything close to what Muir knew directly about urban poverty”

    —Andrew Frisardi on Edwin Muir

    6/10

    sacredweb.com/volume-51/the-go

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney

  10. The houses stir and pluck their roofs and walls
    Apart as if in play and fling their stones
    Against the sky to make a common arc
    And fall again. The conflagrations raise
    Their mountainous precipices…

    —Edwin Muir, “The River”

    5/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney #warpoetry #ww2

  11. “On the second Friday of March 2020, before the first UK lockdown had begun… I was listening to the BBC news & boiling pasta for my children’s tea when a line of verse ran through my head”

    —Jeremy Noel-Todd on Edwin Muir’s poem “The Horses”

    4/10

    someflowerssoon.substack.com/p

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney #apocalypse #lockdown

  12. Barely a twelvemonth after
    The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
    Late in the evening the strange horses came.
    By then we had made our covenant with silence,
    But in the first few days it was so still
    We listened to our breathing and were afraid.
    On the second day
    The radios failed; we turned the knobs, no answer.
    On the third day a warship passed us, headed north…

    —Edwin Muir, “The Horses”

    3/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney #apocalypse

  13. “Edwin Muir (1887–1959) is a mysteriously neglected, gorgeous, & emotionally penetrating poet. Of all the many pieces of writing spurred by the Cold War & the threat of nuclear apocalypse… his poem ‘The Horses’ may be the most effective”

    —Robert Pinsky

    2/10

    slate.com/culture/1999/01/the-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney #apocalypse

  14. I never felt so much
    Since I have felt at all
    The tingling smell and touch
    Of dogrose and sweet briar,
    Nettles against the wall,
    All sours and sweets that grow
    Together or apart…

    —“A Birthday”, by poet, novelist & translator Edwin Muir (1887–1959), born #OTD, 15 May

    1/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney

  15. Somehow or another, I am the first one to share this piece with the wider internet: Kurt Weill's Intermezzo (1917) … his only work for solo piano

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=TEYxMr

    #KurtWeill #Composer #Piano #Intermezzo #GavinGamboa #20thCentury #ClassicalMusic

  16. Somehow or another, I am the first one to share this piece with the wider internet: Kurt Weill's Intermezzo (1917) … his only work for solo piano

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=TEYxMr

    #KurtWeill #Composer #Piano #Intermezzo #GavinGamboa #20thCentury #ClassicalMusic

  17. Somehow or another, I am the first one to share this piece with the wider internet: Kurt Weill's Intermezzo (1917) … his only work for solo piano

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=TEYxMr

    #KurtWeill #Composer #Piano #Intermezzo #GavinGamboa #20thCentury #ClassicalMusic

  18. Somehow or another, I am the first one to share this piece with the wider internet: Kurt Weill's Intermezzo (1917) … his only work for solo piano

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=TEYxMr

    #KurtWeill #Composer #Piano #Intermezzo #GavinGamboa #20thCentury #ClassicalMusic

  19. Somehow or another, I am the first one to share this piece with the wider internet: Kurt Weill's Intermezzo (1917) … his only work for solo piano

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=TEYxMr

    #KurtWeill #Composer #Piano #Intermezzo #GavinGamboa #20thCentury #ClassicalMusic

  20. Somehow or another, it seems I am one of the first to share this music with the internet at large: composer Kurt Weill’s only work for solo piano.

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=2A8Ma_

    #KurtWeill #Intermezzo #Composer #Piano #Classical #20thCentury

  21. Somehow or another, it seems I am one of the first to share this music with the internet at large: composer Kurt Weill’s only work for solo piano.

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=2A8Ma_

    #KurtWeill #Intermezzo #Composer #Piano #Classical #20thCentury

  22. Somehow or another, it seems I am one of the first to share this music with the internet at large: composer Kurt Weill’s only work for solo piano.

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=2A8Ma_

    #KurtWeill #Intermezzo #Composer #Piano #Classical #20thCentury

  23. Somehow or another, it seems I am one of the first to share this music with the internet at large: composer Kurt Weill’s only work for solo piano.

    youtu.be/xVLfJiZ68Mc?si=2A8Ma_

    #KurtWeill #Intermezzo #Composer #Piano #Classical #20thCentury

  24. Land of Dreams: A Novel "An illusion that saves. A lie that destroys" Sale: $4.99 to $2.49 by Gian Sardar Rating: 4.1/5 (12,094 Reviews) #historical #fiction #hollywood #mystery #romance #booksky #books #20thcentury #reading #novel

    Land of Dreams: A Novel

  25. Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time

    Josephine Tey’s 1951 novel THE DAUGHTER OF TIME is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of crime fiction ever. The Lost Ladies of Lit podcast speaks to Tey’s biographer, Jennifer Morag Henderson, about the double life that allowed Tey to rocket to stardom while also flying under the radar in her home town of Inverness

    @bookstodon

    lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/jo

    #Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #20thcentury #womenwriters #podcast #Inverness

  26. Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time

    Josephine Tey’s 1951 novel THE DAUGHTER OF TIME is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of crime fiction ever. The Lost Ladies of Lit podcast speaks to Tey’s biographer, Jennifer Morag Henderson, about the double life that allowed Tey to rocket to stardom while also flying under the radar in her home town of Inverness

    @bookstodon

    lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/jo

    #Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #20thcentury #womenwriters #podcast #Inverness

  27. Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time

    Josephine Tey’s 1951 novel THE DAUGHTER OF TIME is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of crime fiction ever. The Lost Ladies of Lit podcast speaks to Tey’s biographer, Jennifer Morag Henderson, about the double life that allowed Tey to rocket to stardom while also flying under the radar in her home town of Inverness

    @bookstodon

    lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/jo

    #Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #20thcentury #womenwriters #podcast #Inverness

  28. Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time

    Josephine Tey’s 1951 novel THE DAUGHTER OF TIME is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of crime fiction ever. The Lost Ladies of Lit podcast speaks to Tey’s biographer, Jennifer Morag Henderson, about the double life that allowed Tey to rocket to stardom while also flying under the radar in her home town of Inverness

    @bookstodon

    lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/jo

    #Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #20thcentury #womenwriters #podcast #Inverness

  29. Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time

    Josephine Tey’s 1951 novel THE DAUGHTER OF TIME is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of crime fiction ever. The Lost Ladies of Lit podcast speaks to Tey’s biographer, Jennifer Morag Henderson, about the double life that allowed Tey to rocket to stardom while also flying under the radar in her home town of Inverness

    @bookstodon

    lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/jo

    #Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #20thcentury #womenwriters #podcast #Inverness

  30. To celebrate her centenary, Birlinn is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West

    birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agne

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  31. To celebrate her centenary, Birlinn is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West

    birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agne

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  32. To celebrate her centenary, Birlinn is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West

    birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agne

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  33. To celebrate her centenary, Birlinn is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West

    birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agne

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  34. To celebrate her centenary, Birlinn is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West

    birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agne

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  35. The Agnes Owens Archive – Centenary Talk
    24 May, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow – free

    On the 100th birthday of Scottish writer Agnes Owens, Kelvingrove are hosting SGSAH-funded PhD researcher, Laura MacDonald, who has been supporting the development of the new Agnes Owens Archive, housed at the Alasdair Gray Archive

    glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  36. The Agnes Owens Archive – Centenary Talk
    24 May, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow – free

    On the 100th birthday of Scottish writer Agnes Owens, Kelvingrove are hosting SGSAH-funded PhD researcher, Laura MacDonald, who has been supporting the development of the new Agnes Owens Archive, housed at the Alasdair Gray Archive

    glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  37. The Agnes Owens Archive – Centenary Talk
    24 May, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow – free

    On the 100th birthday of Scottish writer Agnes Owens, Kelvingrove are hosting SGSAH-funded PhD researcher, Laura MacDonald, who has been supporting the development of the new Agnes Owens Archive, housed at the Alasdair Gray Archive

    glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  38. The Agnes Owens Archive – Centenary Talk
    24 May, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow – free

    On the 100th birthday of Scottish writer Agnes Owens, Kelvingrove are hosting SGSAH-funded PhD researcher, Laura MacDonald, who has been supporting the development of the new Agnes Owens Archive, housed at the Alasdair Gray Archive

    glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  39. The Agnes Owens Archive – Centenary Talk
    24 May, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow – free

    On the 100th birthday of Scottish writer Agnes Owens, Kelvingrove are hosting SGSAH-funded PhD researcher, Laura MacDonald, who has been supporting the development of the new Agnes Owens Archive, housed at the Alasdair Gray Archive

    glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the

    #Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass

  40. Dot Allan’s writing career spanned nearly 40 years, although she was almost completely forgotten until we republished MAKESHIFT and HUNGER MARCH in one volume, edited by Moira Burgess, in 2010 – available in paperback from all good bookshops (& as an ebook from the evil one)

    3/3

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #Glasgow #novel

  41. HUNGER MARCH (1934) confines all the action to a single day, with multiple characters & narratives threaded through the novel. MAKESHIFT (1928) “opens with a condemnation of middle-class ladies so pointed and bitter that the reference in HUNGER MARCH pales in comparison”

    2/3

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #Glasgow #novel

  42. “It was one of those days when you felt God had forgotten the city…”

    The opening line of a 1930s novel of Depression-era Glasgow: not Blake’s THE SHIPBUILDERS or Barke’s MAJOR OPERATION, but HUNGER MARCH by Dot Allan – born #OTD, 13 May 1886 – which preceded them both.

    A 🎂 🧵

    1/3

    asls.org.uk/dot-allan-a-glasgo

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #Glasgow #novel

  43. 'Plutonium has been described as a physicist’s dream and an engineer’s nightmare because of its superb nuclear properties and confounding physical properties. Compared to uranium, plutonium is more efficient at fission...But it has six different phases, or crystalline forms, that vary in density by up to 25 percent, and modest changes in temperature or pressure can provoke it to go from being as malleable as aluminum to as brittle as glass'

    #nuclearScience #history #metalurgy #20thCentury

    lanl.gov/media/publications/16

  44. “Our Three-Voiced Country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
    26–28 June, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye

    This conference will examine the shared influences & interconnections between Gaelic & other Scottish writing, from the Celtic Revival & the Scottish Renaissance to the beginnings of the new millennium

    @litstudies

    smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-bhli

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #conference #Gaidhlig #Gaelic

  45. Scraping an encrustit stane
    wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
    an archaeologist, ye glowre;
    sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…

    —Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
    from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)

    4/4

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage

  46. Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.
    Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff,
    sat on the heather a hanlawhile…

    —Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus”
    from The Collected Poems of Robert Garioch (Macdonald, 1977)

    2/4

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage