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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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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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lionofchaeronea · 10 months ago

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Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

#art #art history #Ōta Chōu #Asian art #Japanese art #East Asian art #genre art #astronomy #color on paper #Showa period #Showa era #20th century art #National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

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chic-a-gigot · 2 months ago

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Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme, no. 94, vol. 8, octobre 1908, Paris. La Robe-Manteau de Zimmermann. Dans ses diverses transformations. (Modèle breveté S.G.D.G.) Photos Félix. Bibliothèque nationale de France

#Les Modes #20th century #1900s #1908 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #photograph #bibliothèque nationale de france #dress #coat #cape #Modèles de chez #Zimmermann #Félix #one color plates

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onlinesweetheart · 1 year ago

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Winter Sunshine, Maxfield Parrish

#instagram #pinterest #art #classic art #painting #oil on canvas #romantic art #victorian art #romantic period #victorian period #victorian era #classic #romantic era #history #art history #Winter Sunshine #20th century #1955 #maxfield parrish

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spyboy2000 · 2 months ago

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𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗶 1954

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mizutoyama · 2 days ago

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Calling all the fashion historians of Tumblr!

I need to know where this dress is from (as in the source of the picture). Is it from a museum? An auction house? A vintage clothing store? An other place?

I originally found it on Pinterest, where, as of s too common on that website, the source was not indicated. I tried a reverse image search, but it kept bringing me back to Pinterest.

I would be forever grateful!

#fashion history #late-victorian fashion #fashion #late 19th century #early 20th century #(I think the dress is from that period)

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frances-kafka · 7 months ago

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For much of my life, so much media was made by men. Men with working class and military backgrounds. Chain smoking war veterans and high school diploma engineers and sleaze writers. Journalists who were 20th century journalists and not 21st century journalists. Men who were actually pretty familiar and relatable because they're like guys in my family.

This made me think, you know what would be great, if women made some of this stuff too. One day, feminism will win. We will get to be in the public sphere just like these same men. And now women do all of these things! Women with MFAs.

#the men went away but it doesn't mean that regular women now got to write!!#this issue is VERY VERY discoursed in 20th century feminism!! and by women writers!!#female creation in the 20th is fraught!! but it didn't get that much better for the women who didn't get to create *then*!#if it's gotten better it's hugely downstream of self publishing but we don't get to be part of the cultural taste making or narrative the #way that the 20th century men got to be #I think prole women in creative stuff end up making sleaze tbh and get shut out of the taste making #except in periods where sleaze is influential

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chiropteracupola · 4 days ago

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historical-illustrators should get a small edible arrangement delivered to their house every time they get very far with a really good pose and then realize that it won't work with the era's outfits !!

#news from the cupola #I am. Not good at dynamic poses and finally got one that I liked today #and now I will probably have to hide about half of it under a fuckoff huge flight jacket #mm I should never have got interested in things that happen during the 20th century. back to the medieval period with me!!

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hisui-dreamer · 1 year ago

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thinking about taisho era jade born into a merchant family and he's schemey and sly as usual but really he just loves purchasing strange flora and fungi from the west. and then he meets you, an orphan who makes a living by selling flowers that you grow by yourself, not knowing how difficult it actually for other people to grow said plants because you were born with an insane green thumb and so all plants thrive under your care hehehe. he's so intrigued by you he basically hires you as his greenhouse assistant and loves spoiling you with new flora and eventually accessories that remind him of your plants (giving someone a hairpiece = marriage proposal)

he's supposed to be marrying someone with a stronger family backing so he can increase his business relations but nope. he's dead set on marrying the person who made his heart bloom♡

more thoughts continuing here!✧Masterlist

#for anyone who doesn't know taisho era is a period in japan in the early 20th century #just basically traditional japan starting to modernise and trade more with the west #and omg the new years jade card is screaming taisho fashion ahhhhh #my favourite historical eras ever hehe #twstnexus #rinna rants #twsited wonderland #twisted wonderland x reader #jade leech #jade leech x reader

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escapismsworld · 3 months ago

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The Great Gatsby (2013)

Directed by Baz Luhrmann

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan

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diemelusine · 9 days ago

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The Key of the Field / La Clef des champs (1936) by René Magritte. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

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wardrobeoftime · 7 months ago

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The Crown + Costumes

Queen Elizabeth II's white & golden dress in Season 02, Episode 03.

// requested by anonymous

#The Crown #Queen Elizabeth II #Elizabeth Windsor #costumes #costume drama #costumesource #period drama #perioddramaedit #1950s #1900s #20th century #white #gold #Buckingham Palace #London #England #Britain #Europe #requests

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lionofchaeronea · 1 year ago

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Moon over Miyajima, Ito Yuhan, ca. 1930

#art #art history #Asian art #Japan #Japanese art #East Asia #East Asian art #shin-hanga #woodblock print #Ito Yuhan #landscape #landscape art #night scene #Showa period #Showa era #20th century art #private collection

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chic-a-gigot · 2 months ago

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L'Art et la mode, no. 43, vol. 33, 26 octobre 1912, Paris. Imp. L. Lafontaine, Paris. Robe de velours ourlée de skungs, garnie d’une broderie de Beauvais. Broderie de Milton Abelson, Regent House, Regent Street, London w. Bibliothèque nationale de France

#L'Art et la mode #20th century #1910s #1912 #on this day #October 26 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #color #bibliothèque nationale de france #dress #hat #Modèles de chez #Milton Abelson

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onlinesweetheart · 1 year ago

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