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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking 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
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking 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
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking 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
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking 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
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking 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
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"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
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#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'
Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971
#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism
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#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'
Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971
#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism
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#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'
Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971
#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism
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#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'
Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, 1971
#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modernismus #modernism
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#FotoVorschlag 'Architektur in Schwarzweiß'
Huig Maaskant, Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant,
#photography #architecture #architektur #fotografie #modenismus #modernism
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1 Penny Street, Lancaster, 2025
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/1-penny-street-lancaster-2025/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#photography #dslrphotography #favourite #lancaster #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography
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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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Maybe the real #modernism was the wishful thinking we did along the way?
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took a stroll down 1st Ave: there is something eternally elegant about the Secretariat building of the UN (and the whole United Nations Headquarters complex really) that makes it clear why people thought that International Style modernism was the way of the future, and points up how unfortunately low-effort and shabby so many knock-off boxy high-rises are.
The world being what it is, I suppose it’s understandable, but the UN Headquarters site is now deeply marred by all the security fencing and guard stations around it
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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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Marble House, Maida Vale, London, 2025
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#brick #photography #dslrphotography #london #londonphotography #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography
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10 Easton Way, Frinton on Sea, Essex
1935
R.A. Duncan
https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/frinton-mini-guide.html
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Knowing that you stan Stein, I also thought of you when I saw this announcement:
I'll be going to see this exhibition in a couple of weeks. I wonder what it will say, or not say, about her politics in general and her friendship with Bernard Faÿ in particular.
#Modernism #GertrudeStein #USLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #USExpatriates #BernardFaÿ
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Holmfield House, Kensal Town, London, 2025
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/holmfield-house-kensal-town-london-2025/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#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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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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#ThrowbackThursday, #DoorsDay and #FensterFreitag combo - Casa Batlló 👌🏻🥰(Barcelona - 2018) #Spain #Barcelona #CasaBatlló #WindowFriday #UrbanLandscapes #Modernism #Buildings #EdificiosConEncanto #Architecture #Design
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The return of a historic legend. Warsaw’s Powiśle district is once again bustling with life
Warsaw’s Powiśle district has reopened its doors and is once again buzzing with city life. The iconic club-café…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Warsaw #architecture #city #culture #history #interestingfacts #modernism #monument #zabytek
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/119646/ The return of a historic legend. Warsaw’s Powiśle district is once again bustling with life #Architecture #city #culture #history #InterestingFacts #modernism #monument #Poland #Warsaw #zabytek
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"Costume Design (Androcles and the Lion)," Florine Stettheimer, c. 1912.
Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a poet, designer, artist, feminist, and intellectual, with a highly individual style of Modern art.
In 1912, she began to create an opera, which she titled "Orphée des Quat'z Arts," inspired by an annual ball held by Paris art students that combined an excuse to party with a chance to show off their works. They were always masquerades built around some annual theme, and were known for scandalous behavior.
Stettheimer designed costumes, sets, and a libretto for the opera, but it was never produced. However, her costume designs were some of her earliest modernist works that prefigured today's mixed-media art.
Here we have Androcles, riding the lion, only the lion is on a wheeled cart, like a huge toy. The rider, though is interesting; the costume bits are made of cloth and cellophane, and the lion's collar is lace. Stettheimer was fascinated by cellophane, then a new material, and used it a few decades later when designing costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts."
From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #WomenAritsts #CostumeDesign #MixedMedia
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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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"Picnic at Bedford Hills," Florine Stettheimer, 1918.
Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American painter, who was also a theatrical designer, writer, and all-around intellectual of early 20th century New York.
Born into a wealthy family, she was able to travel around Europe and America, eventually returning to New York where she designed opera sets, painted, and ran one of the city's most respected salons. (Not a beauty salon, but a discussion salon!)
She developed a highly individual Modernist style, often very representational but still with many unusual elements, like the yellow grass in this painting, which otherwise would be a straightforward depiction of a picnic. We know who they are...the women are Florine and her two sisters, Carrie and Ettie, and the men are sculptor Elie Nadelman and notorious avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp. I wish I knew which was which, but it seems there's some beguiling stories to be told here...
From the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #Picnic #WomenArtists #WomenInArt
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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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Habitat 67
Shot on 35mm Fujifilm (expired)
#35mm #analoguephotography #filmphotography #35mmfilm #modernism #grainisgood #believeinfilm #colourfilm
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Community Centre and Laundry, Parkview Estate, Bethnal Green
1953
De Metz & Birks
https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/lcc-glc-mini-guide.html
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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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"The Cathedrals of Broadway," Florine Stettheimer, 1929.
I've featured Stettheimer (1871-1944) before, so no point in going over her biography, except to note that she was not only a painter, but a designer of theatrical sets and costumes.
This Modernist painting shows her theatrical roots. She's got neon signs, a proscenium arch, a ticket window, ushers, the whole works. It's a neon-lit fantasia of the real "cathedrals" of Broadway, giving escapist entertainment to people of the Depression.
It's very much its own thing, being partly representational but also bizarrely surreal, echoing the work of Chagall.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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redmay schedule: there must be some way out of here
src:
https://www.redmayseattle.org/scheduleRed May 2025 Schedule
There must be some way out of herehttps://www.redmayseattle.org/
https://www.facebook.com/redmayseattle/Some Way Out of Here?
Friday, May 9, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTubeMichael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: The Encampments (2025)
dir: Michael T. Workman &
Kei Pritsker
Sunday, May 11, 5:00 PMCybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech & Planetary Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeNick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni, Nick Srnicek, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
Friday, May 16, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeSarah Jaffe, Nica Siegel
Delmore Schwartz: Marxism & the Modernist Poet
Saturday, May 17, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTubeAlan Wald, David Lau, Roy Skodnick, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Why It Happened Here
Sunday, May 18, 5:00 PM
(Film showing with discussion)(This is an In-person event)
David Shields, Tommy Swenson, Philip Wohlstetter
The West and the Rest: Capital & Power in a Multipolar World
Tuesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeSandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx’s Thought
Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTubeBruno Leipold, Camila Vergara, Michael Hardt, Alyssa Battistoni
American Constitutional Collapse
Thursday, May 22, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTubeAziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
TERFs
Enemy Feminisms: , Policewomen & Girlbosses
Sunday, May 25, 7:00 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Sophie Lewis, Emi Koyama (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Fragment of an Empire (1929)
dir: Fridrikh Ermler
Monday, May 26, 7:30 PMDe-reification and Art Now
Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTubeJaleh Mansoor, Matt Browning, Anita Chari, Minh Nguyen (mod)
Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect, Capitalism Was a Joke
Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTubeLeigh Claire la Berge, Jason Read, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sarah Jaffe
Whatever Happened to Revolution?
Thursday, May 29, 7:00 PM PDT @TownHall(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Colleen Lye, Nikhil Pal Singh, Idris RobinsonWhat Just Happened, America?
Friday, May 30 5:00 PM PDT
@VermillionColleen Lye, Idris Robinson, Michael Hardt, Jamie Merchant, Kathi Weeks, Jasper Bernes, Nikhil Pal Singh
Endgame: Economic Nationalism & Global Decline
Saturday, May 31, 12:30 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Jamie Merchant, Nikhil Pal Singh (mod)The Future of Revolution
Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM PDT @Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Idris Robinson (mod)
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