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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 6 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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bhindijewelers · 6 months

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Dubbed the Perpetual watch collection, it debuts with the classically styled 1908, a timepiece that pays homage to the Rolex founder, Hans Wilsdorf.

#The New Rolex #new rolex watches #perpetual 1908 rolex #classic and contemporary #perpetual calibre #rolex watches #oyster perpetual watch #rolex perpetual watch

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bebs-art-gallery · 12 days

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Golden Touch (2024) by Clayshaper † Mary Magdalene in the Cave (1868) by Hugues Merle

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constanzarte · 3 months

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Ferederic Leighton - Crenaia, the nymph of the Dargle; 1880

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elixir · 7 months

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A historicist silver mounted nautilus cup. Pseudo marks, probably Hanau, ca. 1900. Height 42 cm, weight 937 g.

#photography #artefact #art #history #archeology #contemporary art #abstract #sculpture #sculptures #artifacts #classical art #20th century art #art detail #curators #curators on tumblr

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rosieandthemoon · 1 month

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By Michelle Avery Konczyk

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v-thinks-on · 4 months

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Today on Doctor Who... The Beatles!

#v thinks #Classic Who #First Doctor #Vicki #Ian Chesterton #Barbara Wright #The Beatles #Ticket to Ride #this is in fact contemporary; their latest and greatest hit at the time #and all before the Beatles were really considered revolutionary #for context Vicki is from the future so I guess she knew the Beatles would make history before even the writers did!

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israelcastillophoto · 5 months

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How would you caption this shot?

Israel Castillo Photography

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sleepynoonradio · 12 days

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"Remember Me" is out!

This is what I needed the tidal tables for :) A new orchestral track, inspired by the wonderful novel "The Invisible Live of Addie LaRue" by V. E. Schwab. Somehow this one was very difficult, took about 5 months (!) start to finish. I even managed to complete two other tracks while contemplating giving up on this one. Luckily I didn't, and in the end I'm quite happy with the result, and a nice metaphor for the video.

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#music #sleepynoonradio #youtube #soundtrack #classical music #contemporary classical #Youtube

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astromechapunk · 1 year

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Melancholy by Constance Marie Charpentier 1801

#arte evangelion #classic art #contemporary art #rei ayanami #neon genesis evangelion

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romanceyourdemons · 8 months

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we need more formally recognized genres like space western. imagine the possibilities. we could have post-apocalyptic xianxia. undersea sword and sorcery. generation ship gothic. if we all work together we can do this

#sci-fi noir is already relatively codified as a genre #i mean alphaville (1965) is almost contemporary with classic film noir lmao #but once again. we can broaden our horizons.#ryddles

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vintagehomecollection · 1 year

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Jack Adams, ASID, Adams Design, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii.

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

#vintage #vintage interior #1990s #90s #interior design #home decor #living room #Atlanta #columns #cathedral ceiling #condominium #classic #furniture #contemporary #style #home #architecture #house plants

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etinomma · 7 days

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Meshes of the Afternoon

Maya Deren, 1943

#maya deren #short film #old hollywood #black and white #surreal #dream world #avant garde #cinema #surrealism #contemporary art #women filmmakers #eldrich horror #eerie #strange #dreamlike #meshes of the afternoon #classic film

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x-heesy · 5 days

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𝙺𝚊𝚑𝚕𝚘, 𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊 (1907-1954) 🇲🇽🖤🌈

The flamboyant Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known to the public for her symbolic self-portraits and depictions of Mexican and Amerindian cultures. Known for her strong and strong-willed character, as well as her communist sentiments, Kahlo left an indelible mark not only on Mexican but also on world painting.

Self-portrait. Loose Hair, 1947

Embrace of Universal Love, Earth, Me, Diego and Coatl, 1949

Moses (Core of Creation) 1945

Broken Column 1944

My Nurse and Me 1939

Roots 1943

My dress there or New York, 1933

Suicide of Dorothy Hale 1939

Little Doe 1946

What water gave me 1947

#classicart #classicalart #classicpainting #classicalpaintings #zeitgenössischekunst #mfpretty #aesthetic #traditionalart #surreal #surrealart #surrealism #surrealismartcommunity #surrealist #surrealista #surrealistic #surrealisme #surreal_art #surrealismo #surrealpainting #retroart

𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔: 𝙻𝚞𝚣 𝚍𝚎 𝚕𝚞𝚗𝚊 𝚋𝚢 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚊 𝚅𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚜 🌜 🎧

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constanzarte · 4 months

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Alexei Harlamoff, Summertime

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the-evil-clergyman · 2 years

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Illustration from Andrew Lang’s The Olive Fairy Book by Kate Baylay (2012)

#kate baylay #art #illustration #modern art #2010s #2010s art #contemporary art #english artist #british artist #books #book illustration #childrens books #fairy tale #fairy tales #fairytale art #andrew lang #art deco #classic art

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