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Holmfield House, Kensal Town, London, 2025
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#brick #photography #dslrphotography #favourite #london #londonphotography #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography
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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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Malabar Court, White City, Hammersmith
1964
Noel Moffett and Partners
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"Fete on the Lake," Florine Stettheimer, early 20th century.
Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a New York City intellectual, poet, feminist, theatrical designer, and not insignificantly, a painter.
Her style is highly individual and unique. While educated in a very formal and academic style, she rejected all that and chose instead to capture the immediate and expressive emotions of her life in New York. Setting up house with her sisters, the group plunged into New York's intellectual heart and became fixtures.
In the summer, they would hold day-long parties, with guest lists full of top artists and writers, and intelligent conversation everywhere. And her paintings often depicted those gatherings in her own individual style.
Apparently painted during one of these soirees, this shows a group of people canoeing on a lake, with what appears to be a fire on the surface; likely some sort of firework. The multicolored lights reflecting on the water in the background give it atmosphere.
From the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, New York.
#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #ModernArt #WomenArtists
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid
10/10
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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Hugh MacDiarmid at 100
A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name
9/10
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Margaret Tait’s affectionate 1964 biography of Hugh MacDiarmid
8/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f3BbuqaiY
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #biography #MargaretTait
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Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)7/10
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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“Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
—Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)6/10
https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/extremism-poiesis
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion
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A Man in Constant Revolt: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of World War Two
—Richie McCaffery, International Review of Scottish Studies 43 (2018)
5/10
https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/4541
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #warpoetry #WW2
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“It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
—1931 Security Service reportRead Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”
4/10
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hugh-macdiarmid-and-the-british-state/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance
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His corpse owre a’ the city lies
In ilka square and ilka street
His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)3/10
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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“What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world & explore it, & the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since”
—Alan Riach on 100 years of “Hugh MacDiarmid”
2/10
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/100-years-of-hugh-macdiarmid/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
That damns the vast majority o’ men.—from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892
1/10
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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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.
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, 2019
I was planning a long-awaited return to Liverpool tomorrow, but unfortunately I've put my back out 💔
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/liverpool-metropolitan-cathedral-2019/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#church #iphonephotography #photography #liverpool #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography
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David Burliuk
View of Manhatten
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Chauffer’s Lodge, Miramonte, Coombe, Kingston upon Thames
1936
Maxwell Fry
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https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-women-of-the-bauhaus/
I wish I lived in Europe so that I could get to see this exhibition without spending a bloody fortune on airfares!
#Photography #Bauhaus #WomenPhotographers #Modernism #20thCentury #Germany #Berlin
