tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223272212024-03-07T01:04:35.088-05:00(what is this?)angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.comBlogger329125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-67419281443934193552015-08-23T09:48:00.004-04:002021-05-26T07:18:40.101-04:00Ubi sunt and the snows of yesteryear<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> from the <i>vanitas</i> series (2007) by Guido Mocafico (b. 1962), <br />an Italian-Swiss photographer living in France.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Song of Love</i>, Giorgio de Chirico, 1914</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdspXBolqi2pg55FJVrhgGsH96gzRD9fzgok8TvFzAso_3Rb4YZMMiq7xpC4sapdmyv2jH6txLE7dI8rPOox4kdZyKJgcO5G81a2o2C8W3cCRUS6SJ-AwFHc_AEh5tWG9NGIL/s1600/ozym.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdspXBolqi2pg55FJVrhgGsH96gzRD9fzgok8TvFzAso_3Rb4YZMMiq7xpC4sapdmyv2jH6txLE7dI8rPOox4kdZyKJgcO5G81a2o2C8W3cCRUS6SJ-AwFHc_AEh5tWG9NGIL/s400/ozym.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Ozymandias</b><br />I met a traveller from an antique land<br />Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone<br />Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,<br />Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,<br />And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,<br />Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<br />Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<br />The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:<br />And on the pedestal these words appear:<br />‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:<br />Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’<br />Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br />Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare <br />The lone and level sands stretch far away.”<br />— Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818<span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Where are the snows of yesteryear?” is a line</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> taken from the <i>Ballade des dames du temps jadis</i> ("Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past") by </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">he medieval French poet François Villon</span>. It expresses the sentiment of <i>ubi sunt</i>, a term I came across the other day and was surprised that I hadnt learned years ago. Latin, meaning “Where are....[they]?", it comes from a longer phrase, "Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerent?" [Where are those who went before us?]*. <br /><br />The phrase is used as a literary term: a meditation on the transience of life, youth, beauty, and human achievement. A common motif throughout literature and song**, Hamlet's soliloquy in the graveyard is an example:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?..."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shelley's <i>Ozymandias</i> is, I think, an <i>ubi sunt</i> once removed. <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In its emphasis on the brevity and ephemeral quality of existence</span></span>, <b><i>ubi sunt</i> is on a spectrum between <i>carpe diem</i>'s almost jocular parry against the implied futility of existence and <i>memento mori</i>'s blatant corpse waving.</b> Unlike <i>carpe diem</i>, there is no exhortation to embrace the now. Yet <i>ubi sunt</i>, I believe, stops short of the grim rumination and </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">extravagant, hand-wringing denial of life </span></span>of <i>memento mori</i>. It is a softer rueful awareness.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><br />In this way it is like <i>mono no aware</i>, a Japanese term for the mindfulness of the transience of things. <i>Mono no aware</i> incorporates both an immediate wistfulness at their passing as well as a more prolonged and resonant sadness
about the reality of life. Significantly, in</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <i>mono no aware,</i></span> as wikipedia notes, “awareness of the transience of all things heightens appreciation
of their beauty.” I think this engagement with and affirmation of the world as it is is also true with <i>ubi sunt</i> and further distances it from <i>memento mori</i>. <br /><br />I find myself falling into an<i> ubi sunt </i>frame of mind all too often, which then leads to a bad case of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehnsucht" target="_blank">sehnsucht</a>, but that is for another post...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">*</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I cannot track its source, if anyone out there knows.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">**</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"> Wikipedia gives two interesting examples of 20th century popular music which incorporate the <i>ubi sunt</i>
motif: the 1960s folk song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by
Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson and the final verse of the Simon and Garfunkle song "Mrs. Robinson" which asks, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-58371504873786731412015-08-17T18:37:00.000-04:002015-08-17T18:37:07.466-04:00The penetrating gaze<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Albayde</i>, Alexandre Cabanel, 1848</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>La morfinomane</i>, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1899</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangement in Black; The Lady in the Yellow Buskin</i>, James Abbott McNeill Whistler,<i> </i>1883 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sappho</i>, Charles August Mengin, 1877</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Came the yellow days of winter, filled with boredom.
The rust-colored earth was covered with a threadbare, meager tablecloth
of snow full of holes There was not enough of it for some of the roofs
and so they stood there, black and brown, shingle and thatch, arks
containing the sooty expanses of attics—coal black cathedrals bristling
with ribs of rafters, beams, and spars—the dark lungs of winter winds.
Each dawn revealed new chimney stacks and chimney pots which had emerged
during the hours of darkness, blown up by the night winds: the black
pipes of a devil’s organ. The chimney sweeps could not get rid of the
crows which in the evening covered the branches of the trees around the
church with living black leaves, then took off, fluttering, and came
back, each clinging to its own place on its own branch only to fly away
at dawn in large flocks, like gusts of soot, flakes of dirt undulating
and fantastic, blackening with their insistent cawing the musty yellow
streaks of light. The days hardened with cold and boredom like last
years loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without
appetite, with lazy indifference.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">—<b>Bruno Schulz</b>, <i>Street of Crocodiles</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Some aspects of Burchfield's work remind me of outsider art, some remind me of visual aberrations, specifically, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma" target="_blank">scintillating scotoma</a>,
which I've experienced. This is a "visual migraine" in which a vibrating zig-zagged circle of light superimposes the field of vision for a few
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">“Afterward the gardens filled the air with enormous
sighs and grew their leaves hastily, doing overtime by day and by night.
All flags hung down heavy and darkened, helplessly pouring out the last
streaks of color into the dense aura. Sometimes at the opening of a
street someone turned to the sky half a face, like a dark cutout with
one frightened and shining eye, and listened to the rumble of space, to
the electric silence of the passing clouds while the air was cut by the
flight of trembling, pointed, arrow-sharp black-and-white swallows.”</span> <span style="font-size: small;">—<b>Bruno Schulz</b>, <i>Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Paint the feeling, regardless of drawing. At dusk there is an ominous
feeling of something huge and black about to descend upon the earth;
this should be painted, not sky or clouds.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">—<b>Charles Burchfield</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I recently discovered the <b>painter <a href="https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/collection/charles-e-burchfield/" target="_blank">Charles Burchfield</a></b> (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">His work is singular though it evinces references to many — Van Gogh, the Fauves, <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2011/01/peculiar-power-of-everyday.html" target="_blank">Eric Ravilious</a>, Thomas Hart Benton, Caspar David Friedrich. In his anomalous American Regionalist middle period in the 1920s and 30s, he was even like an Edward Hopper with more rain. But mostly Burchfield immersed himself in landscapes— and painted hundreds of them in watercolor sometimes so saturated it resembles oil. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Burchfield painted the everyday in an extraordinary way. The mundane landscapes and streetscapes of the Ohio and upstate New York towns where he lived are transformed into pulsing hallucinatory visions. A cryptic interpreter of nature, Burchfield created </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">landscapes sometimes dark and brooding, other times manically aflame, often palpably dense with psychological weight. C</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ommon things become strange, and the invisible is brought into focus. F</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">lowers and stars give off acidic halos, and t</span>he sound of cicadas or power emanating from telegraph wires is transcribed as thickets of shuddering line. It is anxiety made manifest. Evidently Burchfield never was fully at ease and suffered from anxiety and depression. As a teenager, he endured nervous exhaustion
and later, astounding bouts of mania-- producing half his entire output of painting in
the years 1915-1917 alone. His heightened psychological response and susceptibility is plainly visible and, I believe, informs his whole aesthetic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Interestingly, Burchfield was assigned to the camouflage unit during the First World War. At the time the Army was practicing a particular camouflage variant called "dazzle" where large Cubistic shards and stripes of light and dark would obscure the outlines of the structures being covered. Burchfield, I am sure, found a particularly sympathetic outlet for his nervous striations in this unit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">About the same time I came across Burchfield I rediscovered <b><a href="http://brunoschulz.eu/en/" target="_blank">Bruno Schulz</a> </b>(July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942)<b>,</b> the Polish writer and graphic artist. I realized there were sympathetic ties between Schulz's intense mesmerizing verbal cascades and Burchfields hectic visions. Both artists' worlds are animate, mystical and heavily psychological. Both kept somewhat insular lives, Burchfield painting his immediate surroundings in Ohio and upstate New York, Schulz, describing familiar sites in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drohobych" title="Drohobych">Drohobych</a>, the town he lived in his entire life. Each artist drew from a store of personal mythologies and preoccupations, and seemed to be able to train his eye on that which others overlooked or could not see.</span>angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-23198049194699591442015-05-28T16:39:00.000-04:002015-07-04T17:23:27.174-04:00My cat absolutely doesn't give a sh*t<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-74833610251079186062015-04-17T23:00:00.000-04:002015-04-18T08:05:32.222-04:00Historical Dating<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'll just go ahead and admit it— I've found myself back on online dating again. Ho hum. <br /><br />In a certain age bracket the selection of men seems to skew in 2 different directions: Old and old with a motorcycle. —<i>Joke! </i>—Actually, there are many at this age who go to great lengths to emphasize all the biking/skiing/rock climbing/surfing and general Fountain of Youth quaffing they do. Unfortunately, these dont work for me. I dread the inevitable big reveal when I have to admit that while, yes, I have been ON a bike, no, I do not actually bike. Or ski, or surf, etc. My intermittent exercise class attendance just wouldnt cut it with these silver Adonises so no, I guess I wont be checking you out on the slopes. <br /><br />So, after scrolling and swiping my way through the bald and the beige, the Every Men, the superannuated skater boys, the dandies with unseemly numbers of profile pics, the leathery outer borough grandpas, each crag and jowl limned by the glare of a bathroom mirror selfie, I again find myself looking </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for solace</span> in... the long dead or fictional. (<a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2011/09/deadsexy.html" target="_blank">I've been here before</a>, and you can read more of the <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/mydeaddate" target="_blank">back story</a>.) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you are well over a hundred I will probably find you devastatingly attractive</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">. And I could create an <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/home?cf=logo" target="_blank">OKChronos</a> of the historical hotties I've collected over the years.</span></span><br /><br />Without further preamble feast your eyes on sometime Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte’s <i>Canoer</i> of 1877. The nip of his waist! The snap of his brim! That grip! His steely intensity belied only by the cherubic indolence of his mouth. He could be in Williamsburg serving you your next Absinthe cocktail, and he could rock my boat anytime.</span><br />
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Someone I met recently happened to show me a Super 8 movie he made with a few friends in 6th grade, about 1977. Based loosely on Baretta, the cop show with Robert Blake, his film had fight scenes, chase sequences, and even a panning shot as characters ran down the street. (It did not however, have a cockatoo.) It was kid-acted, -shot and -directed with surprising skill, with adult input on editing and driving the getaway car. In winning grade school fashion the production was called Barfetta and Eric hand lettered his title cards in puffy, balloon type. I'm not sure why I was so smitten with this little opus but I'm sure it has something to do with the iconic low-tech image quality and the 1970s color. (It made me think of <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-clicked-through-to-new-york-times.html" target="_blank">this old post </a>about footage of cars driving away from Woodstock.) I could see each of these frames as a Gerhard Richter painting. angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-62321897726071079822014-12-09T13:10:00.000-05:002014-12-10T08:00:11.153-05:00Packing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Random finds during packing. Above, business card from a family trip. <br />
Below, health votive from Greece.</td></tr>
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UPDATED: I am moving. This means everything comes off the walls and out of drawers and off the shelves—it's taken me a while to absorb the enormity of that. There is just so much <i>stuff</i>. I stop and think—well everything came in the door so everything can make it out. But much of this accumulation was just that-- a steady accrual, creeping in quietly, piece by piece. I've looked at this move as an opportunity to deaccession some things from The Collection: shells, old bottles, ceramics, <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2010/03/mudlarking.html" target="_blank">mudlarking detritus</a>, some wooden what-nots, a large cow head sign... But each shedding is a trial, almost every one produces a twinge of regret along with a brief little remembrance of where and when I acquired the item. The goal was to get rid of 1/4 of my flea market cache. It has been more like 1/10. Perhaps I will do further editing on unpacking.//<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The passion for accumulation is upon us. We make “collections,” we fill
our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things,
things.<br />
<br />
Many people never pass out of this phase. They never see a flower
without wanting to pick it and put it in a vase, they never enjoy a book
without wanting to own it, nor a picture without wanting to hang it on
their walls. ... Their houses
are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine
where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its
progress through the lands.<br />
<br />
<b>But to some of us a day comes when we begin to grow weary of things</b>.
We realize that we do not possess them; they possess us. Our books are a
burden to us, our pictures have destroyed every restful wall-space, our
china is a care, our photographs drive us mad ...We feel stifled with the sense of
things, and our problem becomes, not how much we can accumulate, but how
much we can do without. ... Such things as we cannot give
away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret, where
they lie huddled in dim and dusty heaps, removed from our sight, to be
sure, yet still faintly importunate...<br />
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—The Tyranny of Things, Elisabeth Morris (1917)</blockquote>
A friend noted:<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438076368478:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438076368478:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438076368478:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438076368478:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438076368478:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438076368478:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Things.
Recognized as once beloved. Now mostly just reminders of the excitement
of their own discovery. Usually many layered time travel... to the time
I found it, and further back, to the era the thing came from as well.
So a perfect card of "Victory Hair Pins" takes me to both 1940 and 1987.
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Recalling two eras was a wonderful observation.<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438446617734:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438446617734:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438446617734:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438446617734:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438446617734:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3l.1:3:1:$comment10204436440927593_10204438446617734:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">I still feel delighted by the
specialness of the objects I have, but that delight is yoked to a sort of leaden duration
of time in my possession. I feel I've "spent" the excitement of the
piece by having it around so long. It needs to be discovered again. I have been putting things out in front of my house to be taken (in true Park Slope fashion) and have sold a couple things online. In a sense, by giving objects away or selling them I am reenergizing them— giving these finds a chance to delight anew.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-11202907578547194222014-11-25T13:30:00.001-05:002014-11-25T13:44:24.651-05:00Hysterically Entertaining<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière</i> by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot. <br />
Salpetriere was a major psychiatric hospital in Paris, a former dumping ground for women diagnosed as "hysterical"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cafe Concert performer Paulus is credited with bringing a frenetic, grimacing gesticulation to the stage in 1871.<br />
He imitated "invalids and limping women." Another singer recalled, "The excited stamping of epileptic choreography" caught on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 1905, 21 American patients' seizures were filmed—called ”epilepsy biographs”— by the <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It is certain that today, primarily in cities, hysteria is the illness in vogue. It is everywhere."<br />— Dr. Paul-Max Simon, 1881</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Progress
and fashion have just given us a new way to go nuts. It replaces
snobbery, the races and the occult... It’s neurasthenia. All the world has it my friends.—</span>the song “Neurasthenia,” 1906</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />A good half of the hit songs of [today] belong to the jiggling pit of
Charcot... <br />they have gesticulatory hysteria—critic Georges Montorgeuil,
1896*</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Polaire! The agitating and agitated
Polaire! ...What a devilish mimic,
what a coffee-grinder and what a belly-dancer! ...Polaire skips, flutters, wriggles,
arches from the hips, the back, the belly, <br />mimes every kind of shock, twists, coils, rears, twirls... trembling like a stuck wasp, miaows, <br />faints to what music and what words! The house, frozen with stupor, forgets to applaud.<br />—Jean Lorrain Decadent novelist and critic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When I first researched and <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2010/04/gummy-epileptic.html" target="_blank">posted</a> about the early 20th century cabaret performer Polaire, I came across the description <b><i>gommeuse epileptique</i></b>. Lazily, I relied on Google translate to elucidate. It spit forth "gummy epileptic" which didnt help much, so I was amused and left it at that. It wasnt until a recent commenter tipped me off to a wonderful book that explained that peculiar phrase and revealed that "epilectic singers" were an entire genre of entertainment in late 19th and early 20th century France. <b><i><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804738939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0804738939&linkCode=as2&tag=whaisthi05-20&linkId=UOAXQDVX3GWN4PB3">Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=whaisthi05-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0804738939" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i></b>by Rae Beth Gordon is not so much about Jerry Lewis as it is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of <b>the intersection of early French mass entertainment and psychiatric pathology</b>. I especially love 'rogue' scholarship which brings together unlikely academic bedfellows and Gordon doe not disappoint. She juggles mesmerism, somnabulism, music hall entertainment, high brow/low brow divide in culture, Darwin, Nordau's theory of degeneration, "savages", Georges Melies’ films, and mental illness. All this before she even gets to Jerry Lewis.<br /><br />The book discusses a particular kind of performance which first
appeared in the music halls of France in the 1870s and 80s.
It was a comedic style characterized by frenetic movements, tics, facial grimaces, and
other bizarre behavior that, Gordon asserts, mimicked various
nervous disorders such as hysteria, epilepsy, and
Tourette's Syndrome beginning to get coverage in the popular press. It was just at this time that modern psychiatry and neurological study were emerging. Hysteria and later neurasthenia were the focus of professional and public attention alike. Jean-Martin Charcot, dubbed the Napoleon of Neuroses, was instrumental in the popularization (or “vulgarization”) of hysteria. The foremost French neurologist of his day and a professor of anatomical
pathology, Charcot used photography
for the classification and diagnosis of hysteria and published the
widely circulated <i>Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière </i>(1876-80) and the <i>New Iconography of the Salpetriere </i>(1888—1918)<i>.</i> Referring to the Salpetriere, a hospital </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in the middle of Paris </span>which confined 4000 women as incurable or insane, Charcot stated he
was "in possession of a kind of museum of living pathology whose
holdings were virtually inexhaustible.” He opened the doors of that museum to Paris and
put on demonstrations, allowing the spectacle of illness to seep into
into the public psyche and vernacular. (It is also of interest that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a noted experimental psychologist, </span>Alfred Binet, wrote for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignol" target="_blank">Grand Guignol </a>Theater—which deserves a post of its own.)<br /><br />The French public was fascinated
and entertained by watching </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">pathology as spectacle </span> in both the (medical) amphitheater and at the theater. (After all, it was only a step removed from the earlier, well-established bourgeois pass time of touring insane asylums.)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> For the high brow—Flaubert, Maupassant, the Goncourt brothers,
Huysmans, and Jarry all published works relating to hysteria or
neurasthenia— to the lowest common thrill-seeker t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">hese nervous diseases and the shocks of psychiatric treatment
became short hand for the notion of “modernity,” a motif later picked
up by Dada and the Surrealists.//<br /><br />It seems to me that in America anything similar to this style would be black entertainment—ragtime, cakewalks, jazz—and the <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2008/12/trading-halos-for-high-jinks.html" target="_blank">dance crazes of the teens</a>—the Grizzly Bear, Turkey Trot. Although Gordon doesnt discuss her, the book explains why the French would go wild for Josephine Baker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">*Songs such as “Too Nervous,” “Tata's Tic,” “La Parisienne Epileptique,” and “I’m a Neurasthenic.” </span>angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-15299020860263553692014-11-20T21:55:00.000-05:002014-11-20T21:55:27.743-05:00Hartsdale Pet Cemetery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A few friends and I made a trip up to the <a href="http://www.petcem.com/" target="_blank">Hartsdale Pet Cemetery </a>near White Plains. The first cemetery of its kind in the US, Hartsdale, also called The Peaceable Kingdom, was established in 1896 by a New York City veterinarian. Its five acres are home to 80,000 pets (rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, and a lion cub among the vast numbers of cats and dogs) and quite a few humans as well.</span> The rambling, hilly terrain is packed with so many tiny stories: laconic grave markers, floridly effusive epitaphs, bronze and granite bombast, the kitschy pathos of makeshift memorials, the discomfit of shared graves—owner and beloved friends. What really impressed itself upon me was how fervent and <i>true</i> the sentiments were. Unlike human cemeteries, where the epitaphs are often stilted and tradition-bound, laced with religious boilerplate, Hartsdale was filled with colorful outpourings of love, of yearning and grief, of disbelief and the hope that “gone” was not forever.</span></div>
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angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-71610498240698820082014-10-05T17:34:00.001-04:002014-10-05T17:50:47.199-04:00King Charles's Head, Caesar's Wife, and Shared Knowledge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In reading 19th century primary sources—diaries, poetry, essays, etc—I'm struck by how allusive the writing is. References to Milton, Chaucer, biblical parables, mythology, ancient historical figures, military history, and of course Latin and Greek phrases are frequent and typically without explanation. There was <b>a seemingly vast store of what was considered common, shared knowledge</b>. This knowledge was expected of all those who had attained a certain level of education and who shared a particular socio-economic status. I wonder, how much of that is left? Judging by me—a supposedly well-educated member of a certain class— not that much.<br />
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The image above shows part of a test my mother took in about 1951. It was the Language Arts section of the supervisory license for New York City. In other words this was part of what was expected of those hoping to become a New York City public school principal.<br />
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Of a total of 75, there were about 46 I could eke by with, and several more that I'd heard of but was vague about. Here are a few of the 18 or so of which I had no definitive knowledge, along with my first association: <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagus" target="_blank">Areopagus</a> "Areopagitica". But what was that? Milton? What? <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golkonda" target="_blank">Golconda</a> sounds vaguely decadent, like it might be around the corner from Gomorrah. <br />
<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Barmecide_feast" target="_blank">Barmecide feast</a> killing something? No, I've got nothing. <br />
<a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Caesar%27s+wife+must+be+above+suspicion" target="_blank">Caesar's wife </a>—Great Caesar's Ghost! Never heard this and it's really quite useful...<br />
<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/King_Charles%27_head" target="_blank">King Charles's Head</a> perhaps some jolly English Protectorate gallows humor? (I especially liked learning this one) <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananias_of_Damascus" target="_blank">Ananias </a> Nothing. <br />
<a href="http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brewers/ossa.html" target="_blank">piling Pelion on Ossa </a>Complete news to me, this belongs with other Sisyphaean labors<br />
<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/savoyard" target="_blank">Savoyard</a>— no idea --the French Revolution or Paris Commune?<br />
<a href="http://come a cropper" target="_blank">to come a cropper </a><a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Caesar%27s+wife+must+be+above+suspicion" target="_blank"> </a>—Again, never heard this and it's quite useful, rather like a dusty, antiquated "epic fail"<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebic_Oath" target="_blank">Ephebic Oath </a>I should have known this but I didnt. I really came a cropper.<br />
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[Now I'm going to make a pitch for the invaluable <b>Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, </b>first published in 1870. I picked it up by chance for $2.50 at a book sale on Shelter Island and <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2007/09/brewers-feast.html" target="_blank">wrote about it in an early post</a>.
It is one of the most quirky, varied, fascinating and delightful
repositories of knowledge, both eminently useful and absurdly obscure.]angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-78715309849328511272014-09-29T20:34:00.000-04:002014-09-29T20:44:00.304-04:00Loaded Guns<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i> </i>Aesthetic ornament came out of the British design reform movement of the early to mid-19th century. Aesthetic design is eclectic, features exotic motifs (especially Japanese), and geometricized natural elements. Later in the century "artistic" became the shorthand, often commercial shorthand, for any design even remotely Aesthetic. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Recently, my business partner Doug received a phone call from a man in Abilene, Texas, named Otto Carter. Carter had stumbled upon our book, <i><a href="http://www.artisticprintingbook.com/tour-the-book.htm" target="_blank">The Handy Book of Artistic Printing</a></i>, in his online research for ornament. After finding us through our ornament style guide on the <a href="http://www.vectorian.net/vintage-style-guide.html" target="_blank">Vectorian</a> site (Vectorian offers collections of historical ornament in clean digital vector form) <b>he became a big fan of <i>Handy</i> and of Aesthetic ornament in particular. </b>So much so, he wanted us to know, <b>he was using it in his work engraving guns.</b> Yes engraving guns. Carter also works on other "bro"-centric items, like knives, vapor e-cigarettes, motorcycle parts, even golf clubs—virtually everything I know nothing about—but his concentration appears to be guns. While I dont agree with gun culture and hunting, which Carter also embraces, I got over that fairly quickly in the name of design*. I was so taken with the fact that we'd made a dent in this completely foreign niche industry I decided to find out a little more about <a href="http://www.ottocarter.com/" target="_blank">Otto Carter</a> and custom-engraved guns.<br /><br />First I must tell you Carter is damn good at what he does, which is to work metal by hand with a graver. No machine templates, no laser etching, this is all hand work. Carter has a background in art and specialized in decorative sign making and gold leafing for many years. In 2002 he took a week-long course in engraving and found an entirely new calling. It was slow going at first, "Engraving has a huge learning curve," he said, "I don't care if you're
Michaelangelo, your work in the beginning is not going to look good." Well past that stage now, his gun commissions—working, shooting, guns— each take about 2 weeks on average to complete and cost several thousand dollars. Each is virtually encased in ornament.<br /><br />"I have always been a student of style," Carter says, "and sort of bounce
from one to the other.” On his site traditional scroll work, tribal and quasi-Celtic geometrics, Renaissance Revival foliage, religious scenes, even Aztec motifs are all in evidence. “I also did a lot of pin-striping on cars and
motorcycles,” he explained, “and was really influenced by the Kounter Kulture types like
Ed Big Daddy Roth.... So
some of my engraving has a lowbrow look to it.” (I'm assuming he's referring to the odd skull and crossbones hidden amidst the gems). "The planets aligned" when he tried out Aesthetic
ornamentation on an e-cig and then a derringer. “When people
see the derringer they react to it like nothing else.” A derringer, I found out, is a remarkably cool, vintage-looking "palm pistol." The erroneous spelling of 19th century arms manufacturer Henry Deringer's name has come to stand for any small pocket pistol. Put artistic ornament on the derringer and you've automatically got a piece straight from Gangs of New York.<br /><br />I asked why he thought the Aesthetic ornament seemed to be so popular. “I think people like it because it is full of surprises. It is rich
with unexpected elements. Traditional scroll work is rhythmical and
predictable. Also, all the unique cuts of the Aesthetic motifs
lend themselves so well to chisel work. It is truly the engravers style.” Which is apt since the ornament in artistic printing was all cast or carved in metal to begin with. “Right now I'm doing a traditional scroll piece and I'm not very excited about it.” he lamented. “I'm hooked on Victorian!”<br /><br />Watch a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_4Ntnf69U" target="_blank">wonderful little video</a> on Carter created by an e-cig company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">All gun images © Otto Carter</span></div>
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*(I couldnt quite get over the gun he engraved for Rick Perry)</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Baron von Richthofen</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">, c 1917</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">80 direct hits. Need I say more?</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Early aviator <b>Harry Atwood</b>, c 1910</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Not exactly my type but flyboy's got something, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"> <b>Reverand Rollin Heber Neale</b>, 1850</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">That is one nasty preacherman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>William Sydney Mount,</b> 1853</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">A dastardly lout, a cad, a rogue. Tell me more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Proving that sexy is ageless even at 2000+.<i> Vici</i> indeed.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Walter Sickert</b>, about 1918</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Walter Sickert is bad news in the best possible way.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Long lush hair, beautiful features, armor. Winning! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Vsevolod Garshin</b>, Ilya Repin, 1884</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Ok he seems like a mess but you<i> know </i>you'd want to help him edit his work, get him some new clothes and cook for him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Adrien Brody would play him in the movie.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">He painted severed limbs, ship wrecks and the insane and he had tuberculosis. Quite a handful. Then again he looked like this.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><b>Three Men and a Boy</b>, le Nain brothers, 1647-8<br />
Dark, sketchy, satiny long-haired fellows—lets have a beer and discuss.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Sensitive, moony, he'd leave you love notes and give back rubs. They dont all have to be bad boys.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Portrait of a man against flames</b>, Isaac Oliver, about 1600</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">The flames, the shirt down to there, the jewelry, this guy is almost too showy for his own good. <br />
Were women throwing their farthingales and drawers at him?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">first cousins, <b>the future Tsar Nicholas and King George V</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Sporting fellows if ever there were! Double date! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Impeccably turned out for trench warfare; he can carry me to safety anytime.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Anton Chekhov</b>, 1890s</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Weasly, but then again... </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>a tailor</b>, Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1565-70</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Turbulence beneath the calm, no mere shopkeeper, he. <br />
The heart of an artist strains beneath that finicky, micro-slashed doublet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">I see Jeremy Irons in the movie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>William Hogarth</b>, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Louis-François </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;">Roubiliac, c 1740</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;">Hogarth is more of a runner-up but I do love this bust. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;">He's got a laddish humor and pugilistic intensity that wouldnt be out of place in a Guy Ritchie film.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">UPDATE! We have a new historical dead boyfriend! Thanks to Mia<i>:</i></span><i></i><br />
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A lady could do worse than Daniel Trembly MacDougal! <br />
MacDougal (1865-1958) began working at the New York Botanical Garden in 1899 as Director of
the Laboratories and was promoted in 1904 to an Assistant Directorship.
He was recognized as the leading American authority on desert ecology
and one of the earliest
botanists to research chlorophyll. He is also known as the inventor of
the MacDougal dendrograph, an instrument used for recording changes in
the volume of tree trunks.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">I've been collecting them on and off, images of <b>men that seem incredibly appealing to me despite the century or two (or several) that might separate us</b>. It started with that photo of Chekhov. Something about the greatcoat and the reed slim cane and that cocky, short man sensibility... You may remember the electrifying Reverend Neale and the darkly dangerous Mr. William Sydney Mount from my <b><a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2009/11/sartorialist1850s-edition.html">Sartorialist, 1850s Edition</a></b> post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is merely a trifling survey and part of on-going research... A good Regency-era Romantic is a must and I am certainly forgetting some entrancing 18th century fellow so <b>please do let me know who should be on this list</b>. </span><br />
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Where is William Powell you might ask? Or Kurt Cobain? or any number of too-recent, too-recognized, or too-well-publicized men who could surely otherwise be on a list of Sexiest Dead Men? Well, <b>this <i>is</i> an inexact science </b>but I'd say they need to have been in their sexy heyday the better part of a century ago to make it to my list.<b><br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">PS: Someone asked why I skipped Lord Byron. I have to report that his reputation always seemed more attractive to me than he did. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">above and below, two dramatically different Journal covers by the (Brooklyn!) master penman William E. Dennis (1860-1924).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Volumetric, constructed lettering with elaborate shadowing had its heyday in the 1890s to early 1900s. <br />Beautiful examples were found on stock certificates and maps (see BibliOdyssey for a collection of <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/02/sanborn-fire-insurance-map-typography.html" target="_blank">Sanborn map details)</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Journal cover created by a lesser hand (in my opinion) employing the ubiquitous <br />calligraphic bird flourish, a common practice device. <br />The penmen all too often literally "put a bird on it."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Much of what penman were hired for were business documents like these checks and vouchers. <br />This has hand written directions for the engraver and electrotyper.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Commemorative cartouche for Ulysses S Grant, and "President" detail by Daniel T. Ames, 1868. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I believe Ames created the large ornament-choked plaque that still exists in the lobby of </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">the original Cooper Union building. Mid-nineteenth century lettering is usually fussier than later examples, <br />and typically employed more flourishes and scrollwork.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The <a href="http://digitalservices.scranton.edu/cdm/about/collection/zanerbloser" target="_blank">Zaner-Bloser Collection</a> at the University of Scranton is one of the largest collections of American ornamental penmanship of the later 19th and early 20th centuries.<br /><br />The company was founded in 1888 by Charles Paxton Zaner as the Zanerian
School of Penmanship. Elmer W. Bloser purchased a share of the company
in 1891 and in 1895 the school changed its name to the Zaner-Bloser
Company. They began publishing their own penmanship manuals. The school
prepared students for careers as penmen. Penmen were essential to business, preparing legal vouchers, monetary notes, ledgers, writing correspondence and creating
documents before the invention of the typewriter. They also created most advertising display lettering. Zaner-Bloser also
taught students to become illustrators,
engravers, and engrossers. Engrossing is the type of ornamental lettering used on diplomas, commemorative documents, and certificates. To my astonishment, <a href="http://www.zaner-bloser.com/">Zaner-Bloser</a> is still in business and--swimming against the proverbial tide--continues penmanship instruction today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Scranton collection is incredible and includes professional journals, hand writing manuals, instructional material for
children, photographs of children learning to write, scrapbooks containing examples of ornamental penmanship done by master penmen and more. A good portion of this is digitized and downloadable in large sizes!</span></div>
angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-36862868980151921332014-08-06T07:22:00.000-04:002014-08-06T09:52:18.402-04:00Madoo*<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gingko grove at Madoo is underplanted with boxwood trimmed into balls. <br />
The plantings invade the path in an intriguing breaking-the-fourth-wall sort of way.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">brightly painted details are part of Madoo's personal, idiosyncratic charm</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside Dash's "summer house": hand-splattered floors and painted wicker</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the painting studio</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bob Dash,<b> Rain Across Sage Fields</b>, 1975</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bob Dash, </span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pasture on the Hill</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">, 1964 </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="field-slideshow-caption-text"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bob Dash, </span></span></span><b><span class="field-slideshow-caption-text">The Terrace</span></b><span class="field-slideshow-caption-text">, 1975</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dash in the garden, photo by Madoo Conservancy</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Robert Dash in the summer studio building, 2009, photo by <a href="http://www.edibleeastend.com/online_magazine/fall_2009/obsessions/" target="_blank">Edible East End</a></span></td></tr>
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Madoo, the petite and poetic garden tucked away in Sagaponack on the South Fork of Long Island, is the legacy of the late <b>Robert Dash</b>, poet, painter, gardener, eccentric personality and acerbic wit. It's just shy of two acres but brimming with personal flourishes and historical references. The now verdant hideaway was barren land when <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dash stumbled upon the property in 1967.</span> Only a few ramshackle 18th and 19th century barns and out buildings delineated the plot which sat amidst neighboring potato farms. Dash set about creating the garden </span><span style="font-size: small;">“blunder by blunder, increment by increment,” moving and renovating the buildings, adding antiques, statuary, cast-offs—fashioning enchanting tableaux in miniature along meandering pathways. It is this labyrinthine quality that imparts an Alice in Wonderland feel. Within its compact confines, Madoo features a "summer studio", the winter house, a "knot garden" (ground cover clipped into a woven motif) based on Tudor designs, a rose walk and rill complete with forced perspective, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx" target="_blank">quincunx</a> bed, and an herb and vegetable kitchen garden recalling </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">medieval potagers, among other highlights.</span> The garden's "ever-changing" roster brings together roses, elephant garlic, yews, laburnum with ivy and clematis, ginkos and boxwood, and asparagus left to feather. I know next to nothing about gardening but it was just this mashup of high and low, historical and whimsical that enchanted me. Director Alejandro Saralegui, who gave me a personal tour in June, keeps Madoo a vibrant cultural presence with classes, tours, and events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dash was a poet -- starting off in the Beat era of the 1950s and 60s—and a self-taught painter of some renown. There is a show of the work of Dash and Fairfield Porter (a friend) at the <a href="http://parrishart.org/exhibitions/porter-and-dash-between-house-and-studio" target="_blank">Parrish Art Museum</a> in WatermIll, through October 26.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Madoo is "my dove" in Old Scots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.madoo.org/" target="_blank">Madoo Conservancy</a>, 618 Sagg Main Street, Sagaponack, NY 11962 (631) 537-8201</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Often (younger) designers will post a vintage image and say "Anyone know what typeface this is?" They don't realize that from the 1920s through the 1950s (into the 60s too, but less so) <b>much of the decorative display text and headlines in advertising was hand lettered</b>. Of course the late 19th century and early 20th had lots of hand lettering too-- but often these were such elaborate extravaganzas no one would mistake them for a typeface. Decorative lettering of that sort-- what you'd see on certificates or legal documents-- was called "engrossing." Hand letterers-- or "penmen"-- were a major commercial force in the 19th to mid-20th centuries and there were dozens of highly esteemed penmanship schools around the country. Next post, I'll focus on the Zaner-Bloser penmanship school -- it'll blow your mind. As an aside, there are several digital typefaces that have been created that are <i>based on handlettering</i>. See <a href="http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ihof/p22-zaner/" target="_blank">Zaner script</a> for example.//<br /><br />A
friend gave me this wonderful 1927 style guide for commercial hand
letterers last night. It was so fantastic that it inspired me to finally end my long absence from this space. So if there's anyone out there still reading this blog-- enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">B. de B. is a project of <a href="http://thegraphicsoffice.com/" target="_blank">The Graphics Office.</a> It's a growing collection of historically-based designs that rescues ephemera from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reimagines it for the twenty-first.<br /><br />Our alphabet prints are inspired by nineteenth-century British children’s educational<i>chapbooks,</i> pamphlets of rhymes, folklore, and news that were sold on the street for pennies.
<br /><br />We created this series with images and letters from a large, antique
scrapbook made in England in the 1830s, which we bought a few years ago.
"B. de B. Russell Juvenile Album" stamped onto the cover led us to
trace its long ago owner Blois de Blois Russell,
a young man of privilege with a strikingly unusual name. He attended
Oxford, rowed crew, and died
at 22.</span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The prints are on view through March at the <a href="https://tdc.org/" target="_blank">Type Directors Club</a>:</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Come visit at upcoming events like <a href="https://tdc.org/event/book-night/" target="_blank">Book Night: Present & Tense</a> (Thursday, March 13) and <a href="https://tdc.org/event/leonard-marcus/" target="_blank">Designers in the Nursery: A Look at Picture Books by Graphic Artists</a> (Tuesday, March 18)<br /><br />There are three sizes of prints on heavy, bright white archival stock available for order at <a href="http://www.b-de-b.com/" target="_blank"><br />www.b-de-b.com</a>: 8 x 10 inches • 18 x 24 inches • 24 x 33 inches</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU0B_PaVzsbbxUrNE9ZgnyfZga6YYdNgzK5shpc8vL72_EcEvBHvWG6BEEA_67oUYK0rFFDXzUHcWQrnkd-iFYrORZI3fl-BC5uVevWtjoQGPqeCb7fGOcZpIPewahyF4IUIsP/s1600-h/bentley.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU0B_PaVzsbbxUrNE9ZgnyfZga6YYdNgzK5shpc8vL72_EcEvBHvWG6BEEA_67oUYK0rFFDXzUHcWQrnkd-iFYrORZI3fl-BC5uVevWtjoQGPqeCb7fGOcZpIPewahyF4IUIsP/s400/bentley.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285751788192581058" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 253px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note: Even more to bring to this encore post; a friend alerted me to <a href="http://www.demilked.com/macro-snowflakes-diy-camera-alexey-kljatov/" target="_blank">Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov</a> who is following in Wilson Bentley's path— fashioning a DIY attachment to his camera and capturing stunning images of snowflakes. See images at bottom. Yet another Russian, <a href="http://www.demilked.com/snowflake-macro-photography-andrew-osokin/" target="_blank">Andrew Osokin</a>, has done the same just with a macro lens, documenting snowflakes as they touch the ground, moments before they disappear.<br /><br />Kljatov is most in the spirit of Bentley with his personal intensity for the project and home made mechanical ingenuity. He also, like Bentley, photographs the snowflakes against a homemade black backdrop. Kljatov's specimens have a crystalline sharpness. Otherworldy, they look alien and almost unsettling. They are, for me, too clinical to have the same resonance as Bentley's soft, idiosyncratic and sometimes humorous work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Also of note: A couple years ago this Talk of the Town (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/01/03/110103taco_talk_gopnik"><i>All Alike</i> by Adam Gopnik</a>) mentioning "Snowflake" Bentley was a beautiful adjunct to this post.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Wilson Alwyn Bentley</span> (February 9, 1865 - December 23, 1931) was born in Jericho, Vermont, in a farmhouse that remained his lifelong home. He was home-schooled and never ventured far from Jericho. At 19, after he combined two treasured presents– a microscope and a bellows camera–</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">Bentley</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"> succeeded in capturing the world's first photomicrograph of a snow crystal or <span style="font-style: italic;">snowflake</span>. Working outside, of course, he </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">caught </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">each crystal on a black board and transferred it rapidly to a microscope slide. Doing this he was able to create about 5000 <a href="http://library.ssec.wisc.edu/bentley/list.php?display=pix&search=browse&sortBy=&sortOrder=&submit=Find+All">images</a> over the course of his life.<br />
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In town, Bentley was considered odd and was known to many neighbors as the "Snowflake Man" because of his quiet demeanor and unusual preoccupation. Although he was a gifted musician– he played piano, organ, clarinet, coronet, and violin, as well as composed music –he devoted himself to his photography </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">and study of snow.<br />
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In 1931 Bentley worked with William J. Humphreys of the U.S. Weather Bureau to publish <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crystals-Dover-Photography-Collections/dp/0486202879"><span style="font-style: italic;">Snow Crystals</span></a>, a monograph illustrated with 2,500 photographs. After picking up his copies of the newly published book he walked home in a snowstorm. He died of pneumonia at his farm on December 23.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">. . . . .<br />"The rare delight of seeing for the first time this exquisite lineaments under a microscope, the practical certainty that never again will one be found just like this one... To perpetuate each masterpiece the image of each of each rare gem in the photograph, before its matchless beauty is forever lost (to us) is an experience is so rare so truly delightful that once undergone is never forgotten...<span style="font-weight: bold;">Was ever life history written in more dainty hieroglyphics!</span>"– </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wilson Alwyn Bentley</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">. . . . .</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bentley donated his collection of original glass-plate photomicrographs of snow crystals to the <a href="http://www.bentley.sciencebuff.org/Bio.htm">Buffalo Museum of Science</a></span></span><br />
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*Bentley's description of a snow crystal's trajectory</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thanks to</span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://blindpony.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Herbert Pfostl/Blindpony</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> for alerting me to Bentley.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowflakes by Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov. Read more about his technique <a href="http://chaoticmind75.blogspot.ru/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html" target="_blank">on his blog</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Diana in the Snow", 1915 Jessie Tarbox Beals<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Snow man— Happy Days”, 1888</td></tr>
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I've been thinking about drugs names. I don't think I'm alone in my occasional scrutiny of these mysterious, often ridiculous, sometimes brilliant confabulations. (The pharmaceutical business spends a good chunk of their budget on branding and naming and I think this tangential element of design justifies my
assessing the results, no? I'm not going into the logo design here, but see this amusing step by step <a href="http://bit.ly/1kG5qaM" target="_blank">"review" of Ablixa</a>.)<br />
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Huge potential money-makers like psychopharmacological agents and erectile dysfunction buttresses have particularly high stakes in naming and design. According to Medscape the cost in 2001 of consultation on naming alone ranged from $100,000 to $700,000. Elsewhere I read the numbers are "easily" $500,000 up to a couple million.<br />
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Each drug receives 3 names:<br />
• the chemical name—usually a string of prefixes, numbers and a lot of "ethyls" and "phenyls"<br />
• the International Nonproprietary Name (INN, also known as the generic name)— these names are created from a standardized group of "stem" components which represent different classes of drugs (eg. anti-inflammatories, antidepressants) <br />
• the brand name <br />
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here's an example:<br />
<ul>
<li>chemical name <b>—</b> 7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1 methyl-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one</li>
<li>generic name <b>—</b> diazepam (-azepam is used for many antianxiety agents)</li>
<li>brand name <b>—</b> <i>Valium</i></li>
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Names have to be memorable, convey something medicinal and curative, not interfere with international marketing (ie. should not sound like "bad luck" in Chinese) and not be too similar to something already out there. This last criterion is not only for marketing purposes— the FDA evidently rejects 4 out of 10 names so as to not create confusion and possible medical disasters (for instance Celexa vs Celebrex). <br />
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Going through what must surely be a gauntlet of committee presentations
and focus-grouping, how on earth do names like Xalkori and Xofigo see the light of day? The New York Times noted that "drug makers have favorite letters, and they run the gamut from X to Z." They quoted James Dettore of Brand Institute and explained; <br />
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"the letters X, Z, C and D, according to ... "phonologics," subliminally indicate that a drug is powerful. "The harder the tonality
of the name, the more efficacious the product in the mind of the
physician and the end user," he said." </blockquote>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/08/drug_name_confusion_fda_regulations_and_pharma_create_bizarre_new_names.2.html" target="_blank"> According to Slate</a>, though, there might just be a computer algorithm behind all those Xs:<br />
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During tough financial times... many drug manufacturers
skip human consultants and use computerized algorithmic name generators
because they just want something that will get quick approval from the
FDA and don’t care how ridiculous the name looks or sounds. //</blockquote>
<b>My not-so-empirical approach to looking at drug names</b><br />
the word-- how does it sound? how does it look?, associative images–– what does it sound <i>like</i>? what does it bring to mind?, appropriateness–— how well does the name work for what the drug does?<br />
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Successes: <br />
Ambien—pretty good at conveying a zoned-out calm, perhaps a little too techno<br />
Zoloft— its propping you up, get it?--holding you zoloft<br />
Viagra— brilliant— it's vigorous, it's vital, it's Niagra Falls for chrissakes<br />
Abilify— "this antidepressant has abilified me to be functional!"<br />
Keppra— Strangely elegant and aloof, like the name of an ancient Egyptian deity. Not bad for an anti convulsant <br />
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The not-so-greats:<br />
Vioxx— a vanquished Transformers villain— anti-inflammatory now off the market<br />
Viibryd—looking like something you'd find at IKEA (thanks Andrew) this antidepressant doesn't even have an aspirational quality. plus the sound of it seems a bit too manic for a mood stabilizer<br />
Coumadin—a blood thinner that sounds like a mid-level bureaucratic title of the Ottoman Empire; its generic name, warfarin, sounds like a strategic conflict board game<br />
Effexor— this antidepressant reminds me of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWaTAZUxUQ" target="_blank">Gigantor</a>, Space Age Robot<br />
Aubagio— sounds to me like an Italian restaurant you'd find on Staten Island, odd association for drug to treat multiple sclerosis<br />
Stalevo— treats Parkinsons disease but looks like it's a city in Serbia<br />
Simponi Aria— is it part of an Italian opera? an obscure part of the brain (see <a href="http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_10/i_10_cr/i_10_cr_lan/i_10_cr_lan.html" target="_blank">Wernicke’s area</a>)? No it treats rheumatoid arthritis. Perhaps it leaves you singing.<br />
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Fails:<br />
Fungizone— targets potentially fatal fungal infections; the name sounds appropriate in a blatant ham-fisted way, but I would not like to tell people I was on it.<br />
Latuda—an antidepressant that seems more like a vulnerable area of the lower back; see "phonologics"mentioned above—this drug doesn't sound man enough to make me happy<br />
Lamictal— looks like a term for a pus-forming condition—not so good for a mood stabilizer/anti convulsant<br />
Zortress—suppresses the immune system but sounds like a 1980s video game<br />
Zingo— just completely wrong<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Janet Cardiff's 40 part Motet closed this past weekend at the Cloisters. The installation was crowded but the piece still effective. The vocal work at its center is called <i>Spem in Alium</i> or “Hope in any Other” by Thomas Tallis, composed c 1570 for eight choirs of 5 voices. It was written as a progression of voices— sometimes singing in unison, sometimes in call and response. Cardiff's piece, as you may know, consisted of 40 freestanding speakers, each approximately six feet tall, set up around the Cloisters’ Fuentiduena chapel. Each speaker projects an individual voice, (the 40 were recorded separately) so that as you move around the space you experience each voice intimately. You are at the center as the music is projected back and forth across the space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Cloisters itself— a faux medieval abbey which houses much of the Metropolitan Museum's medieval collection—can strike one as characteristically American. If you think too long on its conception it can color your visit, or at least it did mine: rich diletante (George Grey
Bernard) collects bits and pieces of medieval architectural details from around Europe and imports them here; a medieval pastiche financed by another rich American (John D Rockefeller) is constructed to house them; land both immediately surrounding the complex <i>as well as across the river along the New Jersey palisades</i> is bought up to preserve the view. A testament to American wealth and cultural boldness— buying up history wholesale and bringing it home. Thus the Fuentiduena chapel is actually an apse from one location, statuary from another, and a fresco from yet another, inserted into a "chapel" built in 1938. Throughout the building there are door frames from France housed with pillars from Spain flanking rooms made from Netherlandish accoutrements. Still, I dont really mean to criticize. Its a lovely haven in Manhattan and the gardens with researched, period-appropriate plantings are wonderful in and of themselves.</span>angvouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986780554724964458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22327221.post-58776341272611901352013-11-18T14:30:00.001-05:002013-11-18T15:04:59.862-05:00The ABCs of B. de B.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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15 x 17. Each linen page is pasted back and front with scraps of printed
woodcuts and engravings hand-colored with watercolor paint. <br />The whole thing is dirty, creased and coming apart— but its fabulous.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>The Background: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At an<a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2012/03/real-gashlycrumb-tinies.html" target="_blank"> Ephemera Fair</a> a couple years ago, Doug, Sam, and I bought a large scrapbook of brightly hand-colored printed illustrations. Culled from a series of British children’s chapbooks, the scrapbook’s <i>most recent</i>
image appears to date from about 1837 but many of the images are “cuts”
created years, even decades before. All the clippings are affixed to
pages of linen edged in red silk and are bound in a disintegrating
cover marked “Juvenile Scrapbook” and “B. de B. Russell.” <br /><br />“B. de B. Russell”? Was that a business, place, or person? <br /><br />We discovered what we had purchased in Connecticut in 2012 was <b>a scrapbook created 175 years ago possibly to mark the birth of a little tyke with a preposterous name</b>. It turned out <i>Blois de Blois Russell</i> was born at the very start of the Victorian era, on June 6, 1837, near Birmingham, England. He
rowed crew for St. John’s College, Oxford, and, according to a sniffy
email
response from the Oxford registrar’s office, he was most certainly
matriculated as a “commoner” (not nobility or even a
“gentleman-commoner”). We
also discovered he died under unrecorded circumstances in 1860 just before
his 23 birthday. He seemed to have come from compromised stock as
his brother and a sister both died very young as well. Whether being saddled with the name Blois de Blois Russell had any impact
upon his health is unknown.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>About chapbooks:</b>
<br />Stories, ballads, rhymes and popular tales of piety were passed down
through the generations verbally. These oral transmissions started to be
written down and printed in the 16th century as broadsides, leaflets
and booklets called <i>chapbooks</i>. These were popular, cheap, and cheaply
produced texts, typically from 8 to 32 pages
and sold by itinerant peddlers called chapmen. “Chap” is etymologically
related to an old (Middle?) English word for “trade” (see place name <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2011/02/cheap-thrills.html">Cheapsid</a>e
in London), and by extension, cheap. Chapbooks specifically for children became
popular in the mid-1700s. Chaps were sold plain as printed
or colored for an extra cent or two. Who did the coloring? Surely women
and children. Pure speculation, but what a Dickensian scene: little
waifs with their paint pots working in the dim glow of a lamp, so other,
more cosseted children, like B. de B. Russell could enjoy their
handiwork...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Now, B. de B. and the </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Chapbook Alphabet Print Series
</b></span></span></b><br />We were inspired to create prints with what we found in the album’s pages— mixing letters and images for this series of chapbook alphabet prints. <b>So our first offering is generally agreeable subject matter, just slightly <i>off. </i>Next we'd like to plumb the more macabre offerings-- we welcome any thoughts on the matter.</b><br /><br />“B. de B.” wasn't our first choice of names—we went through several—but kept coming back to the euphonious, if odd, B. de B. It had become shorthand for the project, and the
name stuck. Now, B. de B. has become a growing collection of
historically-based designs that rescues ephemera from the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries and re-imagines it for the twenty-first.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>See us at <a href="http://www.b-de-b.com/">www.b-de-b.com</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Artist unknown<br /><i>Rack Picture for Dr. Nones</i>, 1879 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">William Michael Harnett </span>[1848-1892]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Letter Rack</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Faithful Colt </span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Haberle</span> [1856-1933]<br /><i>A Bachelor's Drawer</i> (and 2 details)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Slate</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I recently did an invitation for the New-York Historical Society for an upcoming lecture called “Trompe L'oeil and Modernity” (see top image here, used on the invite). I'd link to the information but it is already sold out! (but I'm going!) My encore updated post here is very on point:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The book <span style="font-style: italic;">The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum</span> by James W. Cook examines the curious strain in 19th century popular culture of <span style="font-weight: bold;">illusionism</span> (the self conscious aesthetic and cultural mode that "exists on the boundary between fact and fiction") and <span style="font-weight: bold;">artful deception</span> (which employs illusionism but purports to be real). Illusionism pervaded a range of 19th century entertainment, from Barnum's "humbugs," like the <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/lm/39/">Feejee Mermaid</a>, to Paul Phillipoteaux's <a href="http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettcyclo.htm">Gettysburg Cyclorama</a>, through all sorts of magic lantern displays, wax figures and sleights-of-hand. I imagine Cook could include the rage for seances, mediums and spirit images as well, though he doesn't go into these. In Cook's view, the public's passion for deceptive spectacle was influenced by the new "discourse" of advertising, social hierarchies and the expansion of the middle class, and the scientific inquiries of the time. Why was it though, that in a time of exacting definitions of propriety, when morality was strictly parsed and appearances were de facto comments on pedigree, society was thrilled by the questionable, and the ambiguous?<br /><br />I was particularly interested in his chapter on <span style="font-weight: bold;">trompe l'oeil painting</span>--a genre which relied on spectacle. Numerous notices of the time described audiences that gathered to argue, gape at and dispute the nature of the paintings. Many of these paintings were run-away pop-cultural hits. Art critics of any standing, though, customarily dismissed trompe l'oeil work, likening it to the "curiosities" that garnered crowds at dime museums– vulgar and without merit. The work was easily employed in aesthetic and social judgments: <span style="font-style: italic;">if you like this stuff you are a philistine or a rube</span>.<br /><br />Harnett, Haberle, and Peto --three of the most successful trompe l'oeil painters–often used commercial packaging and other ephemera in their work (like the Dadaists would do literally 20-40 years later). But they were consummate nostalgia-peddlars (a pretty new idea at the time, the sentimental as cottage industry) who incorporated emblems of the West and cowboy life, Civil war paraphernalia, souvenir images of Lincoln, even recalling the good old days beside <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Haberle_Grandmas_Hearthstone.jpg"><span style="font-style: italic;">Grandma's Hearthstone</span>.</a> (Note that Haberle includes a "newsclipping" in his work <i>The Bachelor's Drawer</i> which purports to recount how <i>Grandma's Hearthstone</i>—his earlier painting!— was so convincing a cat curled up beside it's "fireplace"). These visual panoplies of the stuff of everyday life and the traditional home played to growing anxieties in contemporary 19th century society that modernity was erasing a way of life.<br /><br />The heyday of trompe l'oeil was essentially contemporaneous with Impressionism, and a bit after. Most people think of latter as the aesthetic break-- edgy and avant garde while the former was populist and easily digested. An idea that intrigued me in the book was that trompe l'oeil, while not <span style="font-style: italic;">leading</span> to Modernism, was never-the-less part of a changing visual mode. These sorts of perceptual 'experiments' lead to visual education and redefined the viewer as subjective participant. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Visual doubt, essentially, (exemplified in these popular works) was part of the lead up to modernity.</span><br /><br />Also worth noting is the fact that <b>yesterday's avant garde (Impressionism) is today's greeting card art</b>, while the overlooked populist work is the stuff of art historical criticism. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">See also "I'd like to thank the Academy..." my <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2010/01/id-like-to-thank-academy.html">post on Academic art and silent film.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> 2 versions of <i>Ennui</i>, c. 1914</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>La Giuseppina</i>, 1903-1904 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Still thinking about color after <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-tiny-universe-of-dot-screens.html">attending APHA's all-day color conference. </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">An encore post with updates:<b><br />A painter I've always liked from afar is Walter Sickert</b>. I say from afar because I never sought out a biography or treatise on him, it was simply that each time I came across one of his works I took note. I am always drawn to his colors: smokey, tenebrous, sharp, acidic. In my mental storehouse of mood and color, however, his choices were always relegated to the appealing but problematic section. His subjects lay in the working classes, the music hall stage, the decadent and alien exoticism of Venice, and most notoriously, in the seamy bed-sit flats of Camden Town in North London and the prostitutes who toiled in them. The moods he captured ranged from the cheerfully tawdry to quiet grimness to the palpably brooding. It wasnt his subject choice that I found problematic, it was something about the atmosphere he conjured up—insistently and consistently—in each work. Is it the sense of remove? Is it the voyeurism? Airlessness? <b>A bit of Sickert is tonic, dwell too long in those visual spaces and one feels a creeping discomfort. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sickert was born in Munich to a Danish father and an English mother, but grew up in England. After a brief career on the stage, he became an assistant to James MacNeill Whistler. After 1890 he went to Paris and studied with Degas. Sickert's return to London in 1905 was followed up with a series of nudes that have become inextricably linked with the <a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2785444.ece">Camden Town Murder mystery.</a> These paintings and Sickert's perverse sense of self-promotion (calling, for instance, a very equivocal scene of a weary clothed man and sleeping(?) naked woman alternately "What shall we do for the rent?" and "Camden Town Murder") ultimately led to the preposterous theorizing of author Patricia Cornwall that Sickert was Jack the Ripper.</span></span><br />
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Recently I read a brief but brilliantly written essay about Sickert by Max Kozloff*. In it is one of the most expertly evocative descriptions of color:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">...It would be hard to imagine a more distraught monochrome a more neurasthenic sobriety. Whether in its resiny or vaporous distillation, the paint molds into umber purple, degraded violets, emaciated brownish greens, diseased oranges, prussic, somewhat mildewed blues, the whole occasionally enlivened with little splutters of toned-down white, cream or mustard.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I find the mental image of that entire palette—<i>degraded violets!—</i> incredibly enticing. Perhaps this speaks to my fascination with Farrow and Ball <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2007/08/color-me-impressed.html">color charts</a> and my longstanding wish to be paid to research and <a href="http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2006/09/size-4-in-cement.html">name colors</a>. How wonderful it would be to have (house) paint charts based on ones favorite painters. Sickert for neurasthenic aesthetes, Milton Avery’s sober olives and grays pierced with oranges, mauves and royal blues for liberal intellectuals with expressionist leanings, Fragonard's nubile pinks and celestial blues for those whose tastes run to more... cheerful titillation. Benjamin Moore take note/</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">* I should note that this essay is in an obscure and out of print book, <i><b>The Grand Eccentrics (From Medieval to Contemporary: the eccentric in painting, sculpture and architecture).</b> </i>Many thanks to <b><a href="http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au:81/malcolm-enright-collection">Malcolm Enright</a></b> who pointed me to this fascinating collection of essays. An uneven, and in some ways flawed, book it is never the less a terrific storehouse of some great writing and invaluable facts about some of the most riveting figures in art. The book deserves its own post.</span></span><br />
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