The abandoned Thuận An post office outside Huế, a building I've daydreamed about saving (with my non-existent wealth and legal status). #Vietnam#travel#architecture#modernism
An excellent video about the problems with many Kurzgesagt videos and the economy-first approach to #ClimateChange that states we solve it with even more consumption and relying exclusively on the development of new technology. It points out how Their videos insidiously belittle and undermine the #Degrowth movement. It also pulls in #Modernism, #Neoliberalism, and #GreenWashing.
I won't spoil the big reveal at the end, but it really shows where Kurzgesagt's values lie.
In #modernism you have the 'sicences" social, political and natural, for what they were worth gave us firm places to build ourselves from. With #postmodernism you only have your personal feelings to build from. "The is no such thing as society, only individuals and there families" do you recognise the quote? This is the neoliberalism mess we have been building over the last 40 years.
Lots of great pieces. My personal favorites probably are the paintings by Abram Manewytsch. The phone pics don't do them justice. That goat 🐐 made me smile 😂
Was on my way home on Monday and decided to stop in the Loop to go to a stationary shop. As I was exiting the Monroe Blue Line, I saw a sign with an arrow that said "Chicago Chagall." I went upstairs and found this beautiful Chagall in front of the Chase building. One of the special things about Chicago is the presence of a lot of public art from very famous artists.
Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing, & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN, has gained attention—but she was also an important #modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance
Prof Alison Lumsden, from Aberdeen University, discusses Nan Shepherd’s novels – The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse, & A Pass in the Grampians – at our 2017 Schools Conference
Currently available on BBC Sounds – Robert Macfarlane celebrates Nan Shepherd’s intrepid literary spirit by embarking on an autumnal trip right into the heart of her favourite wild places in the #Cairngorms
“At a time of global ecological crisis … her intuitive understanding of the landscape and the rhythms of nature is both a clarion call and a balm for the soul.”
—Scott Lyall on Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN
“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”
Jo Milne at Aberdeen University celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as a writer of prose & poetry, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape
“In Shepherd’s writing… true learning—like hill-walking—is arduous. True knowledge of the mountains is only possible through the suffering of the body brought on through the relentless motion of the feet.”
Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may be,
Ye’ll haunt me till the day I dee.
Bricht, an’ bricht, an’ bricht as air,
Ye’ll haunt me noo for evermair.
This streamlined extension was added in 1937, as a domestic science block, it is one of many schools in our new Modernism Beyond Metro-Land book, get yours here ⬇️
I like an interesting piece of street furniture, and this modernist-style head, from Prague, is just the ticket.
I've no idea if it has any purpose, but it's very striking.
I never felt so much
Since I have felt at all
The tingling smell and touch
Of dogrose and sweet briar,
Nettles against the wall,
All sours and sweets that grow
Together or apart
In hedge or marsh or ditch…
“Muir’s contact with Europe is significant, however, not only in a personal and literary sense, but also in a wider political context which resonates with our own early twenty-first century times. His travels in the 1920s immediately after the end of World War One, and again at the end of World War Two, tell a story of Europe itself at critical points in its history.”
James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born #OTD, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from #HistoricalFiction to #ScienceFiction – he is one of the most important #Scottish writers of the #20thcentury
Currently on the BBC iPlayer: a trilogy of loosely linked stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon set in a Scottish east-coast farming community in the interwar years. Dramatised for television by Bill Craig.
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon – ed. Scott Lyall
The best contemporary guide to Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s/James Leslie Mitchell’s literature, politics, life, & work – available in print or online via Project MUSE
“Had a fit of the scunners: heart withered up.”
—Willa Muir (1890–1970) was born #OTD, 13 March. Her translations of #Kafka solidified his reputation in English, & then internationally
In this article, Prof Michelle Woods looks at Willa Muir—a #Shetland translator in #Prague
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“Willa Muir […] is one of these ‘dangerous women’ whose courage, intelligence and imagination helped redefine women’s place in a changing society”
—Margery Palmer McCulloch on Willa Muir, for the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities’ “Dangerous Women” project
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“By the time [Willa Muir] met Edwin at a mutual friend’s house in Glasgow, she was a lecturer in English, psychology and education and vice-principal of Gipsy Hill Teacher Training College in London…”
Robert Crawford Robert Crawford reviews Margery Palmer McCulloch’s Edwin & Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage, & Willa Muir’s The Usurpers, in the London Review of Books