#modernism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #modernism, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/291343/ Modern Remnants: Calque Studio and the Race Against Tehran’s Architectural Erasure #ADArticle #ArchitectsSouthwest #ArchitecturalPreservation #Architecture #Asia #CulturalHeritage #DigitalPreservation #Heritage #HeritageConservation #HeritageRestoration #HistoricPreservation #Iran #Modernism #Preservation #SouthwestAsiaAndNorthAfrica #Tashkent #Tehran #UNESCO #Uzbekistan
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Craig needed an ATM on the way to the car wash, so we stopped at the midcentury modern classic BoA in downtown Palm Springs.
PS takes its midcentury heritage very seriously (Modernism Week each year brings 100,000 visitors.)
The 1959 Bank of America building has undergone a total renovation, and looks fabulous.
https://pspreservationfoundation.org/pdf/BoA-14Jun24-Desert-Sun.pdf
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Craig needed an ATM on the way to the car wash, so we stopped at the midcentury modern classic BoA in downtown Palm Springs.
PS takes its midcentury heritage very seriously (Modernism Week each year brings 100,000 visitors.)
The 1959 Bank of America building has undergone a total renovation, and looks fabulous.
https://pspreservationfoundation.org/pdf/BoA-14Jun24-Desert-Sun.pdf
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CIS Tower and New Century Hall, Manchester, 2026
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/cis-tower-and-new-century-hall-manchester-2026/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#iphonephotography #photography #manchester #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #skyscraper
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CIS Tower and New Century Hall, Manchester, 2026
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/cis-tower-and-new-century-hall-manchester-2026/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#iphonephotography #photography #manchester #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #skyscraper
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CIS Tower and New Century Hall, Manchester, 2026
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/cis-tower-and-new-century-hall-manchester-2026/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#iphonephotography #photography #manchester #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #skyscraper
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CIS Tower and New Century Hall, Manchester, 2026
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/cis-tower-and-new-century-hall-manchester-2026/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#iphonephotography #photography #manchester #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #skyscraper
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CIS Tower and New Century Hall, Manchester, 2026
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/cis-tower-and-new-century-hall-manchester-2026/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#iphonephotography #photography #manchester #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #skyscraper
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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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Multi – Culted
Trigger warnings. Relatively honest thoughts about multiculturalism. Next on News at 5, "man beats dead horse." Stay tuned. -
Of course you have to send us a postcard from your trips, pretty please! 💝 Find inspiration in this book on #postcards in #Modernism by Bradley D. Clissold, focussing on postcards in the fiction & correspondence of #Hemingway #RingLardner #Joyce & #WilfredOwen
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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
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"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.
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John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many #Modernist writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thCentury #Victorian #Modernism #WBYeats #WallaceStevens #TSEliot #VirginiaWoolf #HughMacDiarmid
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson
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Abstract Architectural Sculpture “BaanPi”
Dimensions and weight:
Length: 17.2 cm / 6.75
Inches
Width: 18.5 cm / 7.5 Inches
Height: 20 cm / 7.9 Inches
Weight: +/- 1.20 Kg / 2.65 lbs#art #sculpture #abstract #architecture #house #artcontemporain #concrete #mastoart #design #random #thailand #dwelling #structure #modernart #maquette #imagine #bauhaus #statue #kunst #beeld #architectuur #destijl #kunstwerk #artifact #stonework #miniature #modernism #bouwkunst
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A few days I noticed a 1948 plan for Surry Hills on the wall in a bar (The Rover) - a proposal to rename it to Sunny Hills!
Full of new urban expressways and slum clearance as was the fashion at the time.
I've also roughly georeferenced it on modern Sydney (OpenStreetMap) for context.
The entire report is available at https://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE7585967
#sydney #history #localhistory #nsw #australia #modernism #planning #roads #sunnyhills #1948 #surryhills