Lipótvárosi Casino summer room, Budapest, 1913. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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Servus
Aquarelle painting of a building designed by Teodor Talowksi I did way back in May. Shoutout to climbing walls just to draw what's in front of you haha
It's just a silly little sketch, nothing much
By the way when i went to paint that i didn't bring any pencil so i stepped in random furniture store and borrowed one.
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Dance We Must
The Art and Costumes of Ruth St.Denis and Ted Shawn, 1906-1940
Edited with text by Kevin M.Murphy and Caroline Hamilton
with additional contributions by Erica Dankmeyer, Panalee Maskati, Norton Owen, Thandi Steele, Munjulika R.Tarah
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamson, Massachussetts 2022, 128 pages,70 color., Hardcover, 20.96 x 26.67 cm, ISBN 9781646570270
euro 50,00
On America's first modern dance company and its many collaborators, with reproductions of costumes, sets, ephemera and more
Ruth St Denis (1879–1968) and Ted Shawn (1891–1972) pioneered modern dance in the US with their company Denishawn, founded in 1914. Incorporating elements from ancient, non-Western and Native American sources, Denishawn became the first important American dance company. A generation of dancers and choreographers, including Martha Graham, trained and performed with the company, and many artists, including Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, collaborated with them.
This catalog reproduces artwork, sets, ephemera and especially costumes, many of which have not been seen since the 1930s. Some of the materials and costumes, as well as the choreography, borrow from East and South Asian and Native American cultures, and the publication interrogates the legacy of cultural appropriation in dance. The materials also demonstrate St. Denis and Shawn’s stylistic and personal connections to American and European modernists, broadening an understanding of American dance in early modernism.
01/03/23
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So, just wanted to share that early modern pop-up astronomy books were a thing and they are absolutely glorious.
Here's a close-up of the little dragon-serpent guy, because he is especially magnificent.
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