#visual culture

[manufactoriel]

Young Nigerian woman in the late 1950's, photographer unknown

#style #nigeria #photography #photographie #art #photographie contemporaine #contemporary photography #african visual culture #visual culture #curation #research #manufcatoriel

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

Hello tumblr, please look at this picture of people watching a stereoscopic (= 3D) projection around 1858:

Image source: Jens Ruchatz: Licht und Wahrheit: eine Mediumgeschichte der fotografischen Projektion. Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2003, p. 187. Curiously, there is no further information about where Herr Ruchatz found this picture.

#media history #stereoscopy #art of projection #visual culture

[sentientglue]

experiments...

#artists on tumblr #art #photography #painting #oil painting #traditional art #trauma #trauma art #photo tumblr #my scans #skin #photo transfer #visual culture #contemporary art

[excelsior9173]

throwing this out into the ether out of desperate hope lmao (i know it’s a long shot):

i’m writing an art paper on bands that stylize themselves religiously, while creating their own fantastical religions (ie., sleep token or ghost)

if anyone knows of any other bands that do this sort of thing please send them my way! and i don’t mean bands that are christian, etc., and putting their faith in their music. i mean bands that are making up their own gods ( like sleep) and their own theology and then creating an image and their music around that concoction.

one other really important part: the pseudo-religious aspect of their art has to be visual! i need to analyze the visual presentation of their presence, so i need these cult-like/false religion bands to look like what they’re singing about (like vessel looking shamanic/ papa dressing in papal vestments)

#sleep token #sleep token vessel #the band ghost #ghost the band #papa emeritus iv #art history class #visual culture #pseudoreligion #<i think i’m making that term up but idc it’s mine now and i’m trailblazing lmao

[clove-pinks]

An illustration by Paul Gavarni to accompany Albert Smith's essay "The Casino" in Gavarni in London (1849).

[Albert] Smith titled the essay that accompanied Gavarni’s image simply “The Casino,” but his text refers to Laurent’s Casino, and the periodical press of the period shows that Laurent’s was a specific, popular venue situated just off the Strand to the east of Trafalgar Square in central London. [...]

It is a gent that Gavarni depicts enjoying a sherry-cobbler at Laurent’s Casino. In his accompanying essay, Smith records that gents were the “overwhelming class” frequenting the casino; elsewhere he observed that “Gentism” was at “a rampant pitch” there. The man’s slightly long, curled hair, his ring, the large buttons on his double-breasted sac coat, and his short cane and cigar are the gent’s signature accessories in the late 1840s, and would have been immediately recognizable. Descriptions of this urban type had been widely disseminated in the literary and visual culture of the day.

— Jo Briggs, “Gavarni at the Casino: Reflections of Class and Gender in the Visual Culture of 1848″ July 2011, Victorian Studies 53(4):639-64. (Google Drive link)

Compare Gavarni's handsome and elegant Gent to a more typical specimen in a John Leech cartoon from 1847:

Or an illustration in Albert Smith's The Natural History of the Gent (1847):

The wide paletot coat, the very narrow hat brim, the cigar, and the comically large tie pins connected by a chain are all signatures of a "Gent."

Writing about class and visual culture in 1840s Britain, Jo Briggs observes:

Despite the mocking attitude of Smith and others who depicted the gent in textual or visual form, their humor defused the tensions surrounding this upstart figure. [...] The widespread discussion of the gent must therefore be understood as part of a broader preoccupation with the classification of novel and parvenu urban types in visual and literary culture at this time. But this preoccupation stemmed from the fact that, by reproducing the styles and mannerisms of the middle and upper classes, the gent drew attention to the performative aspects of class.

Gents formed a specific subsection of the urban lower-middle classes: young men, without dependents, in skilled jobs that paid well enough to leave a little spare cash for small luxuries, cheap ready-made clothes, and low-brow entertainments. Their jobs were not physically demanding and they worked shorter hours than many. In the evenings they were free to act out a fantasy of a life of leisure, showing off their loud clothes while trying to appear indifferent and aloof.

Nice Joinville necktie.

#Eighteen-Forties Friday #1840s #fashion history #visual culture #paul gavarni #albert smith #john leech #early victorian era #fashion #men's fashion #gents #jo briggs #class #historical men's fashion #victorian #neckwear #gavarni in london

[fashionbooksmilano]

Letters from M/M (Paris)

Paul McNeil , foreword by Björk

Thames&Hudson, London 2022, 480 pages,  25.8 x 21.0 cm,  Hardback with half-height jacket, ISBN  9780500025277

euro 65,00

email if you want to buy [email protected]

Letters from M/M (Paris) is a comprehensive study of the typefaces produced by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak since they founded their influential art and design practice, M/M (Paris).

For the first time, ninety of the designers’ typefaces are catalogued chronologically in a three-part volume, comprising the history of their development; exclusive type specimens; and detailed illustrations of projects in which they appear.

With a foreword by Björk – whose collaboration with M/M spans over two decades – this encyclopaedic volume traces the distinctive and integral nature of type, lettering and signs in the work of M/M, from one-off artistic commissions to fashion branding and their long-lasting collaborations with musicians and theatres.

This complete typographic collection is the perfect companion to the two-volume monograph M to M of M/M (Paris), and will appeal not only to graphic designers, historians and students, but to anyone interested in art and visual culture.

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11/02/23

#M/M (Paris) #typefaces #type lettering signs #fashion branding #musicians #theatres #visual culture #graphic design #design books #designbooksmilano #fashionbooksmilano

[weatherman667]

A rennaissance painting of Christ’s wound actually has depth and perspective.

Therefore it was obviously meant to be a vagina, and therefore Christ was a transwoman.

Literally

Literally literally.

People are literally saying this.

#visual culture #lotus eaters

[milenaolesinska]

Exposition Art Blog Sam Gilliam - American Contemporary Art

"Sam Gilliam is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an African-American artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam has subsequently pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation has been the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions continue to take on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials."

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#Sam Gilliam #american artists #american artist #art #culture #contemporary art #painting #artistic #visual art #paintings #artworks #abstract art #abstract #abstracart #color field painting #lyrical abstraction #visual culture #cultura #art blog #exposition art blog

[karmaalwayswins]

Now Reading:

Hans-Peter Feldmann "Voyeur 7" (2021)

#hans-peter feldmann #art book #photography #visual culture #now reading #not sure how to tag my own posts at this point

[theartjunction]

The Art Junction and New Haven Methodist Church are presenting:

The Painted Word –Images of the Life of Jesus Christ August 5 – September 23, 2023 Thursdays & Fridays 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at the New Haven Methodist Church This group exhibit seeks to communicate a transformational message through visual expression.  The exhibit invites the viewer to examine the life of Jesus and to discover a deeper meaning of the life of Jesus as eight area artists did…

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#Art #art education #art exhibit #community #Community-based art #Images of the Life of Jesus Christ #New Haven #New Haven Methodist Church #Ohio #painting #The Art Junction #The Painted Word #visual culture

[typaphobe]

I started a poetry substack in 2023. In 2022, I wrote each day. This year, I’ll publish one thing a day along with some art created for the words. I hope you are able to enjoy.

Today’s post on #typaphobe is about fathers. Here is a selection:  A father is just kindling and paper for his children's fires. For the full post, you can follow this link: https://open.substack.com/pub/fosterious/p/one-might-require-a-bonfire?r=1dvrku&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#fatherhood #father #poetry #visual poetry #visual culture #digital collage #digital aritst #collage art #poemas #poems and poetry #poem a day #poem about fathers #typaphobe #fosterious

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A VISUAL FEAST OF RED WINES.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an unnamed piece of red wine poured in various shaped glasses, photographed by Florent Tanet, c. 2016-'17.

"After exploring our constant quest for stability, French photographer Florent Tanet worked on a new series called "Food and Wines" for the French newspaper Le Monde."

-- GESTALTEN (US), c. 2017

Source: https://us.gestalten.com/blogs/journal/food-and-wines.

#Visual Culture #Photography #Wines #Food and Wines Photo Series #Le Monde #French #Visual Aesthetic #Wine Glass #Wine Glasses #Wine Photography #🍷 #Food and Wines #Florent Tanet #Wine #Glass of wine #Red wine #Sweet Wine

[sentientglue]

apparition

oil, epoxy resin, acrylic and toner on plywood. 2023

instagram | website

#art #artists on tumblr #apparition #ghost #painting #oil painting #resin #photo transfer #haunting #hauntology #ethereal #dark #dark art #horror #body horror #uncanny #visual culture #post photography #affect #ghoul #dreamcore #dark academia #rage #dark feminine energy #feminine rage #monstrous feminine #traditional art #contemporary art #mixed media #contemporary painting

[happywebdesign]

https://designeverywhere.co/

#Design Everywhere #contemporary #visual culture #digital platform #showcase #library #portfolio #design #studio #typography #type #typeface #font #ABC Diatype #Monument Grotesk #Mono #2023 #Week 13 #website #web design #inspire #inspiration #happywebdesign

[clove-pinks]

A new FREE book for my polar pals: Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions by Eavan O'Dochartaigh. The complete text is Open Source and can be downloaded for free!

Read a review by Franklin scholar Russell Potter on The Arctic Book Review site.

#polar #franklin expedition #franklin search expeditions #arctic exploration #eavan o'dochartaigh #visual culture and the arctic regions #visual culture #arctic #history #inuit #art #literature #shipboard theatre #shipboard newspapers #arctic expeditions

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/russian-aviation-spaceflight-and-visual-culture/mode/2up

#space age #space race #space flight #culture #visual culture