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#Poetry #Modernism

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Marking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Marking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Marking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Marking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Marking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism

Usk Street, Bethnal Green

1952-61

Denys Lasdun

#modernism #architecture #london #denyslasdun

"Tamed," Marian Wawrzeniecki, 1910.

An archaeologist, historian, ethnographer, and only incidentally a painter, Warsaw-born Wawrzeniecki (1863-1943) was a noted eccentric and a bit of a fraud.

From an artistic viewpoint, he had a very individual style; he'd had some training in art but abandoned the formal style he'd been taught and instead embraced his own approach. While classified as a Symbolist painter, he was really more of a Modernist, painting solely to achieve his own vision.

His work reflects Slavic folklore and mythology, often depicting witches and pagan gods, and he's considered a significant figure in the rise of Slavic neopaganism. Many of his works can be taken in multiple ways; this could be an illustration of a legend, or a symbol of humanity conquering nature or evil.

He did some fairly important work as an archaeologist, but also published transcriptions of assorted ancient and medieval documents that historians have since figured out he forged. Exactly why he did that is unknown.

From the National Museum in Warsaw.

#Art #MarianWawrzeniecki #Symbolism #Modernism #SlavicPaganism #Eccentric #Art

#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'

Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971

#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism

#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'

Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971

#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism

#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'

Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971

#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism

#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'

Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971

#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism

#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'

Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant,

#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modenismus #modernism

#Sculpture by Alexandra Koláčková.
Business center Vyšehrad #Prague

#trencadis #mosaic #patterns #biomorphic #contemporaryArt #surreal #art #decoration #bench #publicArt #modernism #tiles #ceramic

https://www.moma.org/artists/5047-mark-rothko

Here's a story about about the visual arts in the mid 20th century USA , a story that I have often heard myself, told myself, and taught to others:

>> In the years following the Second World War, the socially conscious art that had developed under the auspices of the New Deal was cast aside under the pressure of the Cold War and liberal anticommunism, and its place an ostensibly apolitical art was promoted in association with asocial, formalist criteria of critical evaluation.<<

I don't think this story is wrong, but I have come to think of it as incomplete and thereby perhaps misleading.

The MOMA page linked here draws attention to one problem. Whatever archformalist Clement Greenberg might have said, artists like Rothko and Newman did not understand their own work in his narrow terms. To grasp these artists' work, one has to employ a humanist vocabulary of the tragic and the sublime, and employ that vocabulary not merely as a reference to "all over painting", but as a way of making sense of the content of that painting.

Unfortunately, this vocabulary of the transcendent was already being squeezed out in the New Deal years.

Within the modernism of the first three decades of the 20th century, two tendencies were at work: one advancing new visual practices as a way of transcending the crass materialism and obsolete illusionism of the 19th century (Kandinsky, Malevich, early Bauhaus), the other as challenging the separation of "art" from "life" (De Stijl, later Bauhaus, Soviet Constructivism) with the aim of making all art some kind of applied art while simultaneously debunking the "mystifying" language and socially exclusionary practices of the "fine" arts.

Most US New Deal Art, and the criticism and historiography that has valorized that art, has followed that second tendency within modernism . That's a healthy and understandable reaction to art as understood as something old to be purchased in Europe, packed up in crates, and then displayed in the USA by courtesy of billionaire businessmen.

Yet that "socially conscious" modernism all too often either misses or even suppresses the responses mentioned in the MOMA Rothko page.

We need to to ensure that the tragic, the sublime, and the mysterious do not become the exclusive property of the right, whether in the visual arts or the culture at large.

Forgive me -- all this is thinking on the go, conducted under the influence of three large glasses of Woodbridge Chardonnay, and possibly erroneous in many respects.

#AmericanArt #Modernism #Art #20thCentury

Rebuilding Shared Meaning in a Fragmented World

https://hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-shared-meaning-in-a-fragmented-world/

Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

9/10

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909

#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #20thcentury #modernism #queer #queerlit #queerhistory #ComptonMackenzie

219 Oxford Street

1952

Ronald Ward & Partners

#modernism #oxfordstreet #festivaofbritain #architecture #London

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/727b2b83-b1f1-4d50-aafc-620fa1db6928

#lobsters #art-nouveau #beasts #sea-life #modernism #ornament #crustaceans #art #publicdomain

It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.
The rare #murals in the Cohen Federal Building celebrate vital American values of dignity and community. Now they could meet the same fate as the White House’s East Wing. Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/arts/design/wilbur-cohen-building-murals-guston-shahn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KFA.qFyn.wElOFv3eXH7I&smid=url-share
#NewDealArt #AmericanArt #ArtHistory #CulturalHeritage #CulturalPreservation #Modernism

Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

Free online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

3/4

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie

"Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning - Mexico," Marsden Hartley, 1932.

A born Down Easter, Hartley (1877-1943) started off with Maine landscapes, but then traveled to Europe in the early 20th century and discovered Cubism and Modernism in Paris and Berlin. He was tired of doing the same old thing and launched into a new phase of his career.

He traveled around a lot after WWI, including Europe and Mexico in the 30s, where he painted this landscape, inspired by Aztec and Maya lore and art.

He returned to Maine in the late 30s and focused then on local art, depicting the Maine landscape and its people in his own particular way.

He was also a writer, publishing poems, essays, and stories in various magazines, on such topics as art, Maine, and Nova Scotia, where he had close friends who gave him the stable, happy family he lacked as a child.

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

#Art #AmericanArt #MarsdenHartley #Modernism #QueerHistory

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/raising-the-flag-of-modernism-ben-nicholsons-1938/

Excellent article on Ben Nicholson and the tensions within modernism in the Britain of the 1930s and 40s.

#BenNicholson #BritishArt #Art #Modernism

Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man ein Friedens-Murial „Woman with dove“ von Fintan Magee am United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) angebracht. Kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC kann man einen guten Blick darauf erhaschen.

Permalink: flickr

Location: ///closed.flopped.surviving

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Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man ein Friedens-Murial „Woman with dove“ von Fintan Magee am United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) angebracht. Kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC kann man einen guten Blick darauf erhaschen.

Permalink: flickr

Location: ///closed.flopped.surviving

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2025/180

Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man ein Friedens-Murial „Woman with dove“ von Fintan Magee am United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) angebracht. Kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC kann man einen guten Blick darauf erhaschen.

Permalink: flickr

Location: ///closed.flopped.surviving

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#35mm #AgfaAPX400 #architecture #BelieveInFilm #callelibre #commute #donaustadt #fensterblick #FilmIsNotDead #filmphotography #fintanmagee #friedenstaube #kaisermühlen #karlender25 #modernism #monochrome #murial #rollei35 #sonnar40mm28 #stadtentwicklung #streetart #uBahn #u1 #uno #urban #vic #wien

Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man ein Friedens-Murial „Woman with dove“ von Fintan Magee am United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) angebracht. Kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC kann man einen guten Blick darauf erhaschen.

Permalink: flickr

Location: ///closed.flopped.surviving

Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man Teile des United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC.

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Location: ///windy.evenings.presses

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Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man Teile des United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC.

Permalink: flickr

Location: ///windy.evenings.presses

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Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man Teile des United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC.

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Location: ///windy.evenings.presses

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Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man Teile des United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC.

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Location: ///windy.evenings.presses

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-forms-divided-circle-303909

The news I have been reading online has upset me, so I am finding tranquillity in looking at pictures of Barbara Hepworth sculptures.

#BarbaraHepworth #Modernism #Sculpture #Art #BritishArt #WomenArtists

#Praga #Praha #Czechy #Cesky #modernizm #modernism #architektura #architecture #strahov #JiříTrnka

https://t.co/QA9dEVGlRf (via twitter)

The elegant curves of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture really appeal to me.

I think I'm right in saying that her works are popular with the wider public in the UK and beyond. Perhaps viewers recognize that her unification ofthe vaguely biomorphic shape with the unambiguously modern is so appropriate for our era.

I'm sorry to say that I have not actually seen this 1951-1952 work, "Image". Is it in Tate Modern at London or at St Ives?

#BarbaraHepworth #Image #Tate
#Art #Sculpture #Modernism #BritishArt #WomensArt #ArtByWomen

Picture linked rather than attached for copyright reasons.

https://www.tate-images.com/media/t12286-Image.jpg

“Fiddler’s Green” Acrylic paint and ceramic tile. 4 inches by 4 inches. 2023. #art #MastoArt #geometric #abstraction #JosefAlbers #modernism

“Arctic Grey”. Acrylic on canvas. 14 inches x 11 inches. 2023 #MastoArt #art #geometric #abstraction #modernism #AgnesMartin #JosefAlbers

Something different: a mini gallery of some of my work and studies 🧵 #art #MastoArt #tile #modernism #JosefAlbers #GuidoMolinari #abstraction

Ein Pool im Wohnzimmer in Palm Springs entworfen vom #Architekten Albert Frey 1946:
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/103529-001-A/traumhaeuser-in-kalifornien/

#architecture #modernism #design #shulman #architektur #arte

Model of the Concourse on Beach Road, Singapore designed by Paul Rudolph beginning in 1981.

http://www.paulrudolph.institute⁠
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⁣#architecture #modernism #brutalism #brutalist #concourse #singapore #model #docomomo #paulrudolph⁣ #建築 #建築學 #архитектура #هندسةمعمارية