‘Old-fashioned modern’: Claude Flight's Lino-Cuts and Public Taste in the Interwar Period

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-408
Author(s):  
Hana Leaper
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Recreational Sports ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
The Public ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Manual Labour

In 1927, Claude Flight proposed that the linocut, a comparatively new art form, could create a new relationship between the modern public and modern art. It was, he theorised, ideally suited for the mass market as it was relatively small, it was relatively cheap, and its directness accorded with the spirit of the modern age. Many works by Flight and other artists of the Grosvenor School, at which Flight taught from 1926 to 1930, democratically aligned artist, subject, and viewer and focused on scenes of contemporary public life, from manual labour to recreational sports, mass spectator events to commuter experience. This article investigates the ambiguous middlebrow position of the Grosvenor School linocuts, which never achieved the widespread popularity that Flight anticipated or cultivated the broad, aspirational audience he envisioned for these works. It poses that Flight's utopian vision for mass modernism was frustrated by his limited comprehension of the ‘average man’ his linocuts sought to address, and the absence of suitable critical and commercial apparatus to enable the public to meet him on the terms he desired.

Španska državljanska vojna v kontekstu slovenskih in jugoslovanskih razmer med svetovnima vojnama

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Božo Repe
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Schism

SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SLOVENIAN AND YUGOSLAV CIRCUMSTANCES BETWEEN BOTH WORLD WARSThe author describes the division of the Slovenian society in the 1930s concerning the Spanish Civil War. Slovenian history was marked by various ideological schisms – from Christianisation and anti-Reformation in the 16thcentury to the longest lasting ideological-religious schism of the 20thcentury, which had begun at the end of the 19thcentury, in the time when political parties had been formed. At that time the Catholic camp, under the influence of Dr. Anton Mahnič, wanted to organise the public life in the Slovenian provinces according to the principles of extreme Catholicism. The polarisation continued during the interwar period, especially in the 1930s, where we should search for the roots of the wartime fratricidal conflict. Slovenians are still divided along these lines, and the schism surfaces at every possible occasion, for example during elections or celebrations. We are burdened by it to the point where it actually prevents us from becoming a modern nation or at least hinders the process of its formation. The assessment of the Spanish Civil War, even more than 70 years thereafter, still remains essentially controversial, just as it was back then. This holds true for the Slovenian as well as for the European (nowadays mostly conservative) society.

scholarly journals A IMPORTÂNCIA DA FORMA ESTRUTURAL: OBRAS DE MAILLART E MENN [ The importance of structural forms: Maillart and Menn`s works ]

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Ferreira Campos Neto ◽  
Jéssica Faria Brandão ◽  
José Manoel Morales Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Bending Moments ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Class ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
New Vision

RESUMO: As estruturas fornecem a chave para o renascimento da vida pública. Essa nova visão levou à criação de uma nova classe de profissionais, os engenheiros modernos. Entre eles, destacam-se Robert Maillart e Christian Menn, que produziram obras de arte em concreto armado entre os finais do século XIX e XX. Sabendo que a primeira fase de produção de Menn foi influenciada pela arte e técnica de Maillart, este artigo busca avaliar as semelhanças nas relações forma-função e estética das obras de maior representatividade dos dois artistas estruturais por meio da aplicação de análises computacionais dos aspectos projetuais. A ponte Salginatobel, obra de Maillart, foi construída em 1930 e desde então tem sido reconhecida por sua impressionante nova forma de arte e pela sua eficiência econômica e estrutural. A ponte Ganter, obra de Menn, possui qualidade estética sem violar as considerações técnicas, tendo o maior vão livre das pontes da Suíça. Por meio de análises computacionais simplificadas as duas pontes foram estudadas e notou-se que Menn usa a técnica de caixão perdido criada por Maillart para vencer grandes vãos, entretanto os momentos fletores atingiram valores elevados, exigindo que o artista usasse do sistema de protensão para executar sua obra. Observou-se semelhança na estética entre as obras analisadas e no comportamento dos esforços internos, atestando que Menn, ao projetar sua obra, espelhou-se nas formas estruturais criadas por Maillart. ABSTRACT: Structures provide the key to revive the public life. This new vision led to the creation of a new class of professionals, the modern engineers. Among them, Robert Maillart and Christian Menn stand out because both produced reinforced concrete works of art between the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Considering that the first Menn’s production phase was influenced by Maillart’s art and technique, this paper aims to evaluate the similarities in the form-function and aesthetic relations between the most representative works of these two structural artists through the application of computational analysis of design aspects. The Salginatobel Bridge, Maillart’s work, was built in 1930 and has been recognized for its impressive new art form and its economic and structural efficiency since then. The Ganter Bridge, Menn`s work, has aesthetic quality without violating technical considerations and with the largest span of Switzerland bridges. By means of simplified computational analysis the two bridges were studied and it was noticed that Menn uses Maillart`s hollow-box technique to overcome large spans, however the bending moments reached high values, requiring the usage of a pretension system. Similarities were observed in the aesthetics between the analyzed bridges and in the behavior of the internal efforts, attesting that Menn`s work was mirrored in Maillart`s structural forms.

Der fliegende Pfeil

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Katharina Münchberg
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Spatial Change ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Time Space

Die Kunst der Moderne, insbesondere die Lyrik, entwickelt eine eigene ästhetische Konzeption der Bewegung, die mit der klassischen Vorstellung der Bewegung als räumlicher Veränderung eines Körpers in der Zeit bricht. Baudelaires À une Passante, Rimbauds Bateauivre und Paul Valérys Le Cimetière marin sind drei paradigmatische Texte der französischen Moderne, in denen Bewegung als zeiträumliches Kontinuum reflektiert und in der Dynamik der Sprache materialisiert wird. Die moderne Kunst, so erweist sich, ist selbst Bewegung und stiftet Bewegung. Sie wird zu einer Kunst des Werdens, nicht der Substanz, zu einer Kunst der reinen sinnlichen Wahrnehmung, nicht des Begriffes, zu einer Kunst der diskontinuierlichen Erlebnisse, nicht der Erfahrung.<br><br>The art of the modern age, particularly the lyric poetry, develops an own aesthetic conception of the movement which breaks with the classic idea of the movement as a spatial change of a body in time. Baudelaires À une Passante, Rimbauds Bateau ivre and Paul Valérys Le Cimetière Marin are three paradigmatic texts of the French modern age, in which movement is reflected as a time-space-continuum and materialized in the dynamic of language. Modern art is itself movement and causes movement. It becomes an art of the development, not sub- stance, an art of pure sensory perception, not concept, an art of discontinuous adventures, not experience.

The Right to Information in India Implementation and Impact

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
_______ Naveen ◽  
_____ Priti
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

The Right to Information Act 2005 was passed by the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) Government with a sense of pride. It flaunted the Act as a milestone in India’s democratic journey. It is five years since the RTI was passed; the performance on the implementation frontis far from perfect. Consequently, the impact on the attitude, mindset and behaviour patterns of the public authorities and the people is not as it was expected to be. Most of the people are still not aware of their newly acquired power. Among those who are aware, a major chunk either does not know how to wield it or lacks the guts and gumption to invoke the RTI. A little more stimulation by the Government, NGOs and other enlightened and empowered citizens can augment the benefits of this Act manifold. RTI will help not only in mitigating corruption in public life but also in alleviating poverty- the two monstrous maladies of India.

How Art Works

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Winner
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Objective Truth ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Truth Value

This book is an examination of what psychologists have discovered about how art works—what it does to us, how we experience art, how we react to it emotionally, how we judge it, and what we learn from it. The questions investigate include the following: What makes us call something art? Do we experience “real” emotions from the arts? Do aesthetic judgments have any objective truth value? Does learning to play music raise a child’s IQ? Is modern art something my kid could do? Is achieving greatness in an art form just a matter of hard work? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and laypeople have often puzzled about them too and offered their own views. But now psychologists have begun to explore these questions empirically, and have made many fascinating discoveries using the methods of social science (interviews, experimentation, data collection, statistical analysis).

The Speaking Silence of Citizens in Shakespeare’s Richard III

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Cartelli
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
The Public

This chapter examines the commentative words and silences of the citizenry in Richard III, noting that although silence was customarily expected from commoners in the presence of the elite, it could also signify, in both Shakespeare’s version of Richard’s reign and Thomas More’s, the inscrutable resistance of a dissident citizenry. In London, citizen debate and discussion, informed and intelligent, comprised an important forum of Elizabethan public life; and in Shakespeare’s play, citizen non-compliance with the manipulative fabrications of Richard and Buckingham disrupts the performance/reception dynamic to undercut the bonding of the theatre’s citizen audience with the hitherto charismatic Richard. Though their speaking silence betokens the proud heritage of citizen resistance to royal and aristocratic presumption and contempt, Richard and Buckingham obtusely misread this as obtuseness, revealing themselves to be held in a kind of self-hypnosis by the public transcript, memorably subverted by Shakespeare.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitch Kachun
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Public Life ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Many

The Conclusion ties together the book’s main arguments about Crispus Attucks’s place in American history and memory. We do not know enough about his experiences, associations, or motives before or during the Boston Massacre to conclude with certainty that Attucks should be considered a hero and patriot. But his presence in that mob on March 5, 1770, embodies the diversity of colonial America and the active participation of workers and people of color in the public life of the Revolutionary era. The strong likelihood that Attucks was a former slave who claimed his own freedom and carved out a life for himself in the colonial Atlantic world adds to his story’s historical significance. The lived realities of Crispus Attucks and the many other men and women like him must be a part of Americans’ understanding of the nation’s founding generations.

The Public Life of Montaigne

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Desan
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
The Public

Montaigne’s public life extends over more than thirty years—from 1556 to 1588. His first career was as a member of the parlement from 1554 to 1570, one that reflected the desire of his father, Pierre Eyquem. After leaving his post of councilor in the parlement of Bordeaux, he displayed his diplomatic ambitions, which were not rewarded. In 1581, Montaigne was appointed mayor of Bordeaux for two years; he was reelected to this position in 1583. After his term of office ended, for a time he played the role of negotiator between Henry III and the leader of the Protestant party, Henry of Navarre. Imprisoned in 1588, he abandoned all political ambitions and ended his public life before retiring to his château. The public life of Montaigne allows us to consider the Essays as an attempt at political reappropriation in the aftermath of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre.

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