scholarly journals Aesthetic Realism and the Beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge

ICONI ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 128-136
Author(s):  
John Stern ◽  
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Carrie Wilson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hart Crane ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Aesthetic Realism ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Brooklyn Bridge ◽  
Main Cables ◽  
Design And Construction

This article is about one of the world’s most celebrated structures — the Brooklyn Bridge: what makes it beautiful, and why it has been loved by millions of people. It is based on this landmark principle, stated by Eli Siegel — poet, critic, and founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” Beginning with the effect of this bridge on such artists and poets as Joseph Stella and Hart Crane, it then describes each step of the design and construction of this magnifi cent structure, showing how the making one of opposites — Power and Grace, Heaviness and Lightness, Firmness and Flexibility, Simplicity and Complexity — is what makes it a great work of both engineering and art. For example, in Bridges and Their Builders, Steinman and Watson write: “The pierced granite towers, the graceful arc of the main cables, the gossamer network of lighter cables, and the arched line of the roadway combine to produce a matchless composition, expressing the harmonious union of power and grace”. Doesn’t every person want to be at once strong and graceful? The authors describe how, as people are affected by the beautiful sensible relation of opposing forces working together for one purpose in the Brooklyn Bridge, they feel more hopeful that these same opposites can make sense in their own lives.

Joseph Stella and Hart Crane: The Brooklyn Bridge

1969 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Irma B. Jaffe
Keyword(s):  
Hart Crane ◽  
Brooklyn Bridge

scholarly journals Jean Toomer, Technology, and Race

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-472
Author(s):  
MARK WHALAN
Keyword(s):  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
Jean Toomer ◽  
Hart Crane ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Industrial Productivity ◽  
Brooklyn Bridge

The close relationship between machine technology and the literature of American modernism has long been acknowledged. Indeed, it is hard to imagine Fitzgerald's work without its hyper-materialised cars (and metaphysically potent car crashes), or Dos Passos's USA without the representational possibilities of the camera eye. Other writers in the 1920s had equally famous fascinations with what cultural producers and critics often abstracted into the concept of “the machine”; William Carlos Williams described poetry as being “machines made of words,” and Hart Crane used one of the triumphs of American engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge, as the organising metaphor and structuring principle of his poem The Bridge, identifying his theme as “the conquest of space and knowledge.”1 Of course, writers' fascination with how machinery or technological innovation was effecting social change had not begun with modernism. Yet often goaded by the speed of innovation in the visual arts, some American modernist writers responded to what Cecelia Tichi has called a “gears-and-girders” world by rethinking their relation to time, space, communication and economy with an unprecedented radicalism. And in the 1920s – a decade which saw more cars in Manhattan than in the whole of Britain, Lindbergh's pioneering flight across the Atlantic, and the USA move decisively ahead of Europe in industrial productivity – this rethinking had a particularly pressing urgency. Jean Toomer was one of the writers who participated in this exercise, engaging with European art movements such as Dadaism and Futurism and their proposals for new relations between machine design and literary aesthetics.

Product-Oriented Design and Construction (PODAC) Cost Module – An Update

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
John C. Trumbule ◽  
John J. Dougherty ◽  
Laurent Deschamps ◽  
Richard Ewing ◽  
Charles R. Greenwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Model ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Cost Estimating ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
The Us ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Design And Construction

ABSTRACT During the past several years the US Navy and the shipbuilding industry have been working together to develop a cost estimating tool that is sensitive to manufacturing processes and techniques. The Product-Oriented Design and Construction Cost Model (PODAC) Project's charter is to develop a product-based, production driven cost estimating tool that will be used by shipbuilders and the Navy to assess the cost of innovated and advanced technologies proposed for naval application. This paper will highlight the progress of the model development and the future direction of the project. Additionally, the PODAC Integrated Product Team (IPT) has been installing and implementing the PODAC Cost model at five major U.S. shipyards and within the Naval Sea Systems Command (NA VSEA) over the last twelve months. A structured evaluation of the model has taken place at several shipyards. The evaluation process was conducted in terms of technical or engineering trade-off studies. The findings and recommendations of one of these studies are discussed.

Ridge, Lola (1873–1941)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terese Svoboda
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
First Century ◽  
Hart Crane ◽  
The Waste Land ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Saturday Review ◽  
Brooklyn Bridge ◽  
Creative Will

A proletarian modernist, the poet Lola Ridge is best known for her work published between 1918 and 1922, which coincided with her editorship of Broom and Others. She is also known for her salon in New York that hosted most of the leading poets of the time, including Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and Hart Crane. Four years before Eliot's bleak and anti-Semitic ‘The Waste Land’, her equally long poem ‘The Ghetto’ celebrated the ‘otherness’ of the Jewish Lower East Side, chronicling an era and prophesying the multi-ethnic world of the twenty-first century. She was one of the first to delineate the life of the poor in Manhattan and, in particular, women’s lives in New York City. The title poem of her second book, Sun-up and Other Poems is a striking modernist depiction of child's interior life. Harriet Monroe, founder of Poetry, and William Rose Benet, founder of Saturday Review of Literature, called Ridge a genius. Her poem ‘Brooklyn Bridge’ greatly influenced Hart Crane, and her late work shared Crane's concerns with archaic language and mysticism. Her 1919 speech, ‘Woman and the Creative Will’, anticipated Virginia Woolf's A Room of Her Own by 10 years.

Project BRAIN: Working Together to Improve Educational Outcomes for Students With Traumatic Brain Injury

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Denslow ◽  
Jean Doster ◽  
Kristin King ◽  
Jennifer Rayman
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Accurate Identification ◽  
Transition Intervention ◽  
Working Together

Children and youth who sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at risk for being unidentified or misidentified and, even if appropriately identified, are at risk of encountering professionals who are ill-equipped to address their unique needs. A comparison of the number of people in Tennessee ages 3–21 years incurring brain injury compared to the number of students ages 3–21 years being categorized and served as TBI by the Department of Education (DOE) motivated us to create this program. Identified needs addressed by the program include the following: (a) accurate identification of students with TBI; (b) training of school personnel; (c) development of linkages and training of hospital personnel; and (d) hospital-school transition intervention. Funded by Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA) grants with support from the Tennessee DOE, Project BRAIN focuses on improving educational outcomes for students with TBI through the provision of specialized group training and ongoing education for educators, families, and health professionals who support students with TBI. The program seeks to link families, hospitals, and community health providers with school professionals such as speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to identify and address the needs of students with brain injury.

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