#modernism — Public Fediverse posts
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Fascinating. David Jones is a hole in my reading that I will now make sure to fill.
This Folio book seems to be an especially fine edition. Good to have both the Eliot and the Jones intros. I love the calligraphic illustrations by Ewan Clayton, reflecting and elevating the text in the most sympathetic manner. (My wife once participated in some of Clayton's workshops, so there's an extra connection for me.)
Not all the Folio editions appeal to me; in this one, illustrator and editor seem to have aligned perfectly with the author and the text.
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#Sculpture by Alexandra Koláčková.
Business center Vyšehrad #Prague#trencadis #mosaic #patterns #biomorphic #contemporaryArt #surreal #art #decoration #bench #publicArt #modernism #tiles #ceramic
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#Praha hlavní nádraží, Czech Republic. 📷
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Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/950ef21e-c772-428b-832d-13297c0ca048
#reptiles #snakes #artnouveau #beasts #modernism #ornament #lithography #art #publicdomain
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Chauffer’s Lodge, Miramonte, Coombe, Kingston upon Thames
1936
Maxwell Fry
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“Trocchi would barely have encountered Beckett’s work while he was finishing his first novel 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮 but the marks of the Irish writer’s influence on 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 are undeniable and even explicit.”
—Calum Barnes on “Situating 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬”
4/9
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/19/situating-cains-book/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #modernism #Beckett
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Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/750b74da-0d18-4d40-966c-c2179e8103fb
#fish #art-nouveau #beasts #modernism #ornament #seaweed #art #publicdomain
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"Guitar on a Table," Juan Gris, 1915.
I've talked about Juan Gris, my favorite Cubist, before, so I won't go into his story again. But I love his clean lines and his ability to be Cubist while still making his objects discernable.
Here he's got a guitar (a frequent motif in his work) against sheet music on a tabletop...but the guitar has only five strings, and the music is missing a line from the staff. He's letting us know what they are without being a slave to naturalism, which I respect.
Gris was a champion of "Crystal Cubism" and did many paintings I admire...and I usually don't like Cubism! There's just something about his firm vision and ability to render an object while still toying with perspective that I really like.
From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
#Art #JuanGris #MyFavoriteCubist #Cubism #CrystalCubism #Modernism
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"Guitar in Front of the Sea," Juan Gris, 1925.
As I've said before, I don't care much for Cubism, except for Juan Gris' style.
Spaniard Gris (1887-1927) started off as an illustrator and cartoonist, but moved to Paris and plunged himself into the avant-garde art world. He became a passionate Cubist, and in my view the best, as he practiced "Crystal Cubism" where he broke down things to their component shapes, but kept them still recognizable. His remarkably clean lines appeal to me.
The guitar here is two intersecting triangles with a rectangle thrust in it...the newspaper is two trapezoids together...the sea is some white lines on blue with a plain white triangle indicating a sailboat. We also have sheet music, a pear, and what may be the Ace of Diamonds....and while they're all distinctly Cubist, you still easily recognize them.
Poor health meant he died young and never moved to another style. As some critics have said, he's the purest Cubist of the lot.
From the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
#Art #JuanGris #Cubism #StillLife #CrystalCubism #Modernism #MyFavoriteCubist
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Another buzzing Friday is now in the books! Weekend is just around the corner, so I better hurry up then … For today’s #FensterFreitag, here is a snap shot I took back in 2018 of modernist Casa Lleó Morera while on a vacation trip to #Barcelona in early spring 😍👍🏻 #Spain #CasaLleóMorera #WindowFriday #UrbanLandscapes #Modernism #Buildings #EdificiosConEncanto
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Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d2f9d8e4-ece7-46ba-8b46-d6c57d8e1cd6
#reptiles #art-nouveau #beasts #modernism #lizards #frogs #ornament #art #publicdomain
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“And so with the moderns”: The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s SPARTACUS
—Scott Lyall, CLOTHO 4/2 (2022)
6/10
https://journals.uni-lj.si/clotho/article/view/11511
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Rome #AncientRome #Spartacus #LewisGrassicGibbon
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(I have always thought that the first sentence of James Leslie Mitchell’s SPARTACUS is up there with some of the great opening lines in literature …)
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Rome #AncientRome #Spartacus #OpeningLines #LewisGrassicGibbon
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“SPARTACUS will be seen as one of his most enduring achievements, still vivid, still experimental, still burning with the anger he felt at the barbarous events of history”
Ian Campbell discusses James Leslie Mitchell’s brutal & unflinching novel SPARTACUS (1933)
5/10
https://asls.org.uk/james-leslie-mitchells-spartacus/
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Rome #AncientRome #LewisGrassicGibbon #Spartacus
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Tarsila do Amaral
Portrait of Mario de Andrade
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Why am I obsessing over a children's bunny? Because Miffy is accidentally revolutionary. She’s the love child of Dutch modernism. And honestly, looking at how this little rabbit has captivated the world for 70 years, I think her creator cracked the code.
#nijntje #miffy #modernism #dutchmodernism #mondriaan #matisse
https://snobbyfreelancer.com/a-modernist-love-story-miffy-mondriaan-and-matisse/
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🏢 One World Trade Center
📍 1 Fulton Street, Nowy Jork, NY 10007, Stany Zjednoczone
🗓️ projekt/budowa: 2006 - 2014
📐 architekt: Daniel Libeskind#NowyJork #NewYork #USA #OneWorldTradeCenter #WTC #FreedomTower #modernizm #modernism #architektura
https://t.co/GBzqwfm9a8 https://t.co/jxEKSSX2AN (via twitter)
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The V House in Copenhagen, Denmark
This striking structure, with balconies jutting out like hedgehog spines, combine cutting-edge design with a playful approach to light and space.#modernism #architecturaloddities #architecture #section-Atlas
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Feliç dia de Sant Jordi des de Reus. #SantJordi #Catalunya #roses #llibres #BestiariCatala #CasaNavàs #DomènechiMontaner #Modernism #CatalanTraditions #books #DayOfTheRose #reus #CatalanFestivity
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Waltham Forest is 1 of the 12 boroughs featured in our new guidebook, Modernism Beyond Metro-Land. It is home to art deco, Scandinavian modern, Festival style and a bit of Brutalism. Find out more about the book here https://unbound.com/books/modernism-beyond-metro-land/
#architecture #artdeco #modernism #brutalism #london #WalthamForest
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#ModernistMonday - today in Czech Koprivnice, where the most beautiful Eastern Block car, Tatra 603, was made 🚗
The city center is a complex of office buildings, with restaurant-commercial building in the middle, on the side of the latter hangs a mosaic. Big lawn with trees is a nice addition, makes the concrete-dominated space liveable. Obviously #Tatra87 stands in the middle ❤️
#modernist #modernism #modernizm #socmodernism #socmod #socmodernizm #czechia #czechy #tatra #mosaic #mozaika
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Former "Iwanowo" cinema in Łódź, Poland. Later it became a music club, nowadays abandoned and devastated.
#modernizm #Modernism #Modernist #socialistmodernism #socmod #socnodernism #brutalism #lodz #łódź
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“Brutalism Friday”
“Makpetrol Gas Station”, Gjorgji Golev, 1973, Ohrid, North Macedonia
#modernism #socialistarchitecture #socmod #socialistmodernism #utilitarian-architecture #socheritage #brutalismfriday #brutalism #brutalisticarchitecture #architecture #architecturalphotography
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Let's begin new cycle - #ModernistMonday
Socialist modernist bus station in Kielce, Poland
#Modernism #modernist #architecture #socialistmodernism #socmod #publictransit
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CW: An Introduction
Since I have now moved to the Zirk.us server (after years on the big one), here's a new #Introduction.
I am a writer and college teacher living in the wilds of New Hampshire. I have often been a companion to cats, but am not right now. I am companion to countless books. I write short stories and essays and am told they're sometimes disturbing. I write scholarship on #Queer #Modernism, #VirginiaWoolf, #SamuelDelany, #Horror, #Pedagogy, #OpenEducation, etc. I am skeptical of "I".
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Slapping a few hashtags together to serve as an #introduction: I teach #mediastudies (esp #radiostudies #radio ) in relation to #modernism (esp Irish & British lit and the lit of the #globalsouth ). Strong interest in #archives and #archivalstudies. Currently exploring a career move in policy around #indigenous rights & treaty negotiations. Have lived in #mississippi and #montreal , back on #VancouverIsland #bc for the time being. Also: #Hiking #sustainability #coffee #film #music #introductions
