#bookofhours — Public Fediverse posts

I recently finished reading Richard Wollheim's "Painting As An Art".

I found much of it stimulating in the close attention paid to particular pictures and thought provoking with regard to his theory of "seeing in" as the way to understand our perception of paintings.

On the other hand, his use of psychoanalytic theory left me with questions.

Surprisingly, his use of this theory reminded of some recent reading of mine in evolutionary psychology. Both Wollheim and the evolutionary psychologists stress the significance of a common human nature and are inclined to downplay the importance of systems of symbols or culture in general.

I do think that a substantive concept of human nature makes sense, and I am open to the possibility of evolutionary psychology and psychoanalytical theory contributing to an understanding of of human nature.

Altogether less agreeable to me is the tendency of these theories to smuggle in a social ontology in which culture is merely the creation of atomized individuals. One can believe in the evolved nature of the mind and allow for the possibility of certain kinds of psychic forces at work in the individual without denying the importance, still less the existence, of social facts. Thinking about languages as at once learned and used by individuals but also existing as entities external to those individuals is helpful here.

Image: The Construction of the Tower of Babel -- Folio xvii, The Bedford Book of Hours -- 1423 - 30 - The British Library.

#Wollheim #RichardWollheim #PaintingAsAnArt #EvolutionaryPsychology #Psychoanalysis #SocialOntology #Art #Philosophy #IlluminatedManuscript #BookOfHours #BedfordBBookOfHours #15thCenturyArt #TowerOfBabel

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

I wonder if this cute critter could have been an inspiration for the Bile Demon from Dungeon Keeper or the Oracle Envoy from Elden Ring.

#BookOfHours #Weebles #DungeonKeeper #EldenRing

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

I wonder if this cute critter could have been an inspiration for the Bile Demon from Dungeon Keeper or the Oracle Envoy from Elden Ring.

#BookOfHours #Weebles #DungeonKeeper #EldenRing

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

I wonder if this cute critter could have been an inspiration for the Bile Demon from Dungeon Keeper or the Oracle Envoy from Elden Ring.

#BookOfHours #Weebles #DungeonKeeper #EldenRing

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

I wonder if this cute critter could have been an inspiration for the Bile Demon from Dungeon Keeper or the Oracle Envoy from Elden Ring.

#BookOfHours #Weebles #DungeonKeeper #EldenRing

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

I wonder if this cute critter could have been an inspiration for the Bile Demon from Dungeon Keeper or the Oracle Envoy from Elden Ring.

#BookOfHours #Weebles #DungeonKeeper #EldenRing

Book of hours, produced in England ca. 1450-1460 CE (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) #Bookofhours #manuscript #15thcentury #PennLibraries

17 March is St Gertrude's Day.

Here she is, #spinning and surrounded by #rats in a detail from the Hours of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, painted by Simon Bening, c1523.

#otd
#onthisday
#bookofhours
#simonbening
#illuminatedmanuscript
#manuscript
#renaissance
#distaff
#spindle
#16thCentury
#16thcenturyart
#stgertrude
#history
#histodon
#histodons
@histodons
@histodon

William #Byrd: Psalm 6, Lord in thy rage.
From Songs of Sundry Natures, 1589.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol

#Psalm 6 is the first of the 7 penitential psalms, and is often found in books of hours accompanied by an image of the King David, kneeling in prayer with his #harp set aside.

Image: page from an #illuminatedmanuscript showing the penitent David, and the #Latin words of Psalm 6, Domine ne in furore.
From Aussem Hours, #16thCentury, W.437.45R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNMGlfcnGc&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic
#earlymodern
#Tudors
#illuminatedmanuscripts
#sheetmusic
#bookofhours
#tudor
#WilliamByrd
#Elizabethan
#ElizabethI
#penitentialpsalms
#KingDavid
#illumination
#history
#renaissance
#histodon
#histodons
#renaissancemusic
@histodons
@histodon
@earlymodern
@earlymusic

#AnneOfGloucester grew up with the library of #Pleshey Castle, commissioned & collected by the #bibliophile #Bohun family, & catalogued in 1397 when her father was arrested. #WomensHistory prompts reflection on household culture, role models, generational influence - & how both we & kings may struggle with inner demons.

🎨 made for Anne's mother, #EleanorDeBohun. 🧵 13/

#BookOfHours #Psalter #digitised #manuscript #OpenAccess #MedievalWomen #medieval #medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII