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20.4.2021
KKK and leader, 1946American racist organisations were well documented since the start of the Ku Klux Klan. But the situation in the inter-war years was totally unexpected. The Friends of New Germany, supported by New York’s German consul, were largely naturalised German emigrants based in NY. The Friends was a small group that existed into…
Back in 1970s, I read each winner of the Booker Prize for Literature, written in a British country. Bernice Rubens, Nardine Gordimer, Penelope Fitzgerald, Thomas Keneally, Anita Brookner, Penelope Lively, Peter Carey, A.S Byatt and Ian McEwan were deserving winners. Then Julian Barnes in the 1980s!Barnes won the Booker Prize in 2011Barnes (b1946) graduated from Oxford in 1968, and wrote…
Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa,by Antoine-Jean GrosMy favourite summary of history blog posts used to be found in The History Carnival. This monthly showcase of blog writing was active from 2005-17, hosted at a different blog each month to provide a variety of perspectives; now the old posts are archived in Welcome to…
Rosa McCauley (1913-2005) was born in Alabama where she and her parents lived with the maternal grand parents, and where her younger brother Sylvester was born. Rosa’s mother Leona was a teacher, and the family greatly valued education. Rosa moved to Montgomery where she studied at high school, but left at 16 to care for…
2.4.2021
Privies in New York, 19th centuryCredit: Ultimate History ProjectIn 1851 in Britain, the Great Exhibition show-cased the first public flushing toilet, created by Brighton plumber George Jennings. The popularity of this invention was such that the first public toilets opened the following year and were known as Public Waiting Rooms. Even then, the prevailing modesty…
19.3.2021
Northern Europe: Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, NorwayI have examined the World's Most Liveable Cities before, in 2016 and 2018, but now something different. Launched in 2012, the World Happiness Report is an annual survey ran by the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The survey ranks global happiness in countries around the world.Although the…
Labrador puppies ready to go into volunteers’ homesVictims Services began trialling Therapy Dogs in Manly Local Court in Sydney in April 2017, promoted by NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman. He announced the rollout of a new Canine Court Companion Programme/CCCP, citing successful cases of dogs in courts in Canada and New Zealand.The Programme received a…
12.3.2021
My Childhood by Maxim Gorky, first published in 1913Aleksei Maximovich Peshkov/Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was born in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod. His cabinet maker father died when Gorky was 4. And he became a total orphan at 9, when his mother died. The boy was then raised in poor circumstances by his grandparents, but at…
9.3.2021
From 1963-66 inclusive, my closest friends outside school were South African teens of my own age. Their brave parents had made the decision to leave the country of their birth, a beautiful land filled with safari holidays, national parks, exotic animals and flowers, beaches and amazing cities. It must have been a tough decision since my friends’ parents…
Decay and rot are established motifs in art history. They address transience and disgust, as well as contemplation, devotion and humility through the tradition of Memento Mori. In contrast to pure motific depictions of decay, Finnish artist Toni R. Toivonen (*1987) arranges deceased animals and creates works, in which organic components such as fur, muscles, flesh…
Taiteen niin sanottua osallistavaa käännettä on 1990-luvulta alkaen luonnehdittu siirtymänä esineistä ihmisiin, materiaalisesta immateriaaliseen. Kun taideteos syntyy ja toteutuu osallistumisen prosesseissa – sosiaalisessa vaihdossa ja vuorovaikutuksessa – jääkin sen aineellinen puoli usein vähemmälle huomiolle. Osallistavan taiteen tutkimuksissa ovatkin korostuneet ihmisten ja ilmiöiden väliset sosiaaliset ja yhteiskunnalliset suhteet. Osallistavien teosten aineellisuus on tutkimuksellinen haaste. Se on…
7.3.2021
Ellen Thesleffin Marionetteja-puupiirroksen (1908) hahmojen malleina olleiden 1700-luvun marionettinukkejen löytäminen Museo e Centro di Studi Teatrali Casa di Carlo Goldonista Venetsiasta avasi mahdollisuuden taiteilijan luomisprosessin eri vaiheiden tarkasteluun havainnosta toteutukseen. Tutkimusnäkökulman vaihtaminen teoslähtöiseen tutkimusasenteeseen, jossa huomiota kiinnitetään niin toteutustekniikkaan kuin myös teoksen materiaaleihin, mahdollisti taiteilijan havainnon ja valintojen välisen suhteen tarkastelun. Thesleffin puupiirroslaatalle päätyneiden kolmen…
What does the observation of people walking have to do with interpreting paintings or other artworks, past or present? Can an old painting be ‘activated’ or invite the viewer to participate and experience it more actively? In this paper, I discuss some examples in which my own art research practice has found in bodily movements…
Artikkelissani tarkastelen pääasiassa runoistaan ja musiikistaan tunnetun saamelaistaiteilijan Nils-Aslak Valkeapään (1943–2001) myöhempää 1980- ja 1990-luvun kuvataidetta. Tutkimukseni on monitieteinen, ja rakennan analyysikehikkoni taidehistorian tutkimusperinteen sekä saamen- ja alkuperäiskansatutkimuksen pohjalta. Esitän, että erityisesti intertekstuaalisuus tarjoaa oivan taustan pohtia materiaalisuutta ja immateriaalisuutta sekä niiden merkitystä Valkeapään taiteessa. Tarkastelen hänen teoksiaan länsimaisen ja perinteisen saamelaistiedon, vanhan perinteen ja…
Pyrin lähestymään artikkelissani Georges Didi-Hubermanin materiaalisuuksia koskevaa ajattelua ottaen lähtökohdaksi Immanuel Kantin esikriittisen negatiivisia suureita koskevan tutkielman (1783) sekä Gilles Deleuzen teokset Bergsonisme (1966), Différence et répétition (1968) ja Le Pli. Leibniz et le baroque (1988). Viittaan myös Maurice Merleau-Pontyn Le Visible et l'invisible -teoksessaan (1964) esittämiin näkemyksiin, joiden pohjalta esitän, että se, mihin Didi-Huberman viittaa…
My analysis will address the following questions: What is the role of time and silence in the melancholy scenes of de Chirico’s early “metaphysical period” (1911–1918) and his articles prior to the year 1920, and how can the question of time be seen as a participant or catalyst in the phenomenon of synesthesia in de…