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
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
“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.
“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
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
Stumbled across this lovely post by photographer Darren Bradley and it made me feel very differently — warm and fuzzy, even — about our campus architecture, which he describes as being "one of the finest collections of Modernist architecture in the United States."
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.
📖 In a chapter of the book "Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain", Vera Marques Alves explores how modernism and transnational connections shaped the folklore policy of the Estado Novo, in particular the nationalist uses of folk carried out by the regime's propaganda service (the Secretariat of National Propaganda).
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 ⬇️
Progress report on new #freeformcrochet project. Top of the back and both arms shown, in double knit hand-dyed merino, also chunky recycled plastic bottles and a bit of metallic/Angora. Inspiration... Georgia O'Keeffe, body parts in a grey/red palette. The rest of the yarn is a lighter 4-ply. I needed a heavier yarn for everything to hang from. Much more surface work to do on the joined scrumbles.
Recinte Sant Pau, a hospital well ahead of its time and more beautiful than any I’ve seen.
Designed in late 1800s, mostly for poor, it used aromatherapy, bright colors & nature to boost moods, and had significant focus on air circulation and ventilation. #hospital#arquitectura#architecture#barcelona#modernism
there are not little accounts on the #birdsite, who on first sight promote #classical#art* only to get a whole lot of reactionary crap passed under the radar and show off their simplistic world views and lack of capacity and/or will to get the #postmodern discourse. by all means culture_crit is a perfect example.
*in itself nothing wrong with that at all
"I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me -- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself -- and that's much more frightening!"
Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig / Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
“In ‘Hallaig’, in this poem, MacLean, as a Gael, stands firmly at the centre of his world, and, consciously, close to the end of his world. As a poet, he shows us that the particular horizon and times that happen to encircle him, encircle us all.”
—Seamus Heaney