The glorious year 1922

Source: The Modernist Journals Project, http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1425423439777263&view=mjp_object. Photoshopped.

All this I swallow, it tastes good, I like it well, it becomes mine

Change: two still images

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/change-two-still-images/

Metaphysical

The unexamined life is not worth living

Source: https://fujiwara57.tumblr.com/post/168003140423/affiche-publicitaire-dentreprises-de-la-p%C3%A9riode. Photoshopped.

Daniel Manheim, the editor of "The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin," contemplates one of my Photoshop jobs

The doctrine of suffering and release

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/the-doctrine-of-suffering-and-release/

The blog where form is given shelter and made beautiful

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress,
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006006184/. Photoshopped.

The meditation in black and white is so profound that it brings forth color

Nevertheless, the kernel of light

Erskine Caldwell, Georgia 1935 -- Roy A. Moore, Alabama 2017: "Literature is news that STAYS news"

Book review, two portraits, and short story beginning, "Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt."

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/book-review-two-portraits-and-short-story-beginning-als-gregor-samsa-eines-morgens-aus-unruhigen-traumen-erwachte-fand-er-sich-in-seinem-bett-zu-einem-ungeheueren-ungeziefer-verwandelt/

Allegory of the natural sciences

She shows promise

Link to "Modernism/modernity" forum post "Tearing free"

https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/tearing-free

Like Alexander Pope, he desperately needs to believe that whatever is is right

Dynamism of an eclipse

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/dynamism-of-an-eclipse/

To make the spectacle pleasing, colorize

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/to-make-the-spectacle-pleasing-colorize/

Paradise unspeakable

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/paradise-unspeakable/

The stalk, the kill, the Roger Scruton contemplation

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/the-stalk-the-kill-the-roger-scruton-contemplation/

Hawaii Kai: the cultural contradictions

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/hawaii-kai-the-cultural-contradictions/

Guest post: "Portrait of a poet with a book"

https://blog.blakearchive.org/2017/10/17/yeats/

A grammar of myopia

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/a-grammar-of-myopia/

Color defined as a context

Dazzle: mode in the era of Edward Wadsworth

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/dazzle-mode-in-the-era-of-edward-wadsworth/

Against President Trump, about 1915

“Sale — Rummage — Mrs. Hiram Borge.” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005024621/. Photoshopped.

Monocle

Source: “General von Watter.” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006005771/. Photoshopped.

When the dark falls we can see a star

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/when-the-dark-falls-we-can-see-a-star/

Eat that metaphor salad and name it on the way back up, you bad druggie

Light at the equinox

Living through the Trump era, Maneki Neko consoles himself

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/living-through-the-trump-era-maneki-neko-consoles-himself/

Theory of photography: the evolution from the color of nature to the monochrome of culture

Transport VIII

Pathos as a resource

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/pathos-as-a-resource/

William Butler Yeats contemplates William Blake

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006005581/. Photoshopped.

In a warm climate, the lamp of learning

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/in-a-warm-climate-the-lamp-of-learning/

Pollock dreams that his entire body has become a brush

Cossack, newly conceivable

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/cossack-newly-conceivable/

Quite right. Mormons don't smoke cigars.

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/quite-right-mormons-dont-smoke-cigars/

Nightbird descends

Euclidean

Venite, adoremus

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/venite-adoremus/

Prettier than Parteigenossin Riefenstahl*

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/prettier-than-parteigenossin-riefenstahl/

My noon had come to dine

Visible only in the tropics – that is, in the latitudes between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn – this is the zenith passage or Lahaina noon: the moment when the sun is directly overhead and an object standing vertically will cast no shadow. In the tropics it comes twice a year: when the sun is on its way north to the Tropic of Cancer (which it will reach at the summer solstice) and when it is on its way back south to the Tropic of Capricorn (which it will reach at the winter solstice). In Hawaii, where I took this picture today, the dates are in May and July.

And the picture’s title comes from a poem by Emily Dickinson, “I had been hungry all the years.”

In search of the spring of light

Bot review

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/bot-review/

As language is changed in the Trump era

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/as-language-is-changed-in-the-trump-era/

What so proudly we hailed

Hommage à Lee Friedlander

From the age of Synthetic Cubism: interior with tabula rasa

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/from-the-age-of-synthetic-cubism-interior-with-tabula-rasa/

Larry Clark and William Gedney: documentarians of the prehistory of the Trump era

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/larry-clark-and-william-gedney-documentarians-of-the-prehistory-of-the-trump-era/

Threading its way out from among his gray hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.

Datum for a theory of mind

Conversation in the conservatory

Sight under conditions primarily favorable to touch

To conceal short fingers, wear a cape (requires red-and-blue stereo viewer)

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/to-conceal-short-fingers-wear-a-cape-requires-red-and-blue-stereo-viewer/

Globalized language and its armed forces

Label on a package of synthetic-wood floorboards

A little bibliography of the never to be read again

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/a-little-bibliography-of-the-never-to-be-read-again/

Bauhauskatze

Answer: while the sun exerts its gravitational force, no one

O Ile leape vp to God: who pulles me downe?

Dear Leader

Foucault in the seat of power

For years I couldn't find this artifact because it turned out to have migrated to another stratum: my wife's office. It has surfaced there now, however, so

to the memory of Michel Foucault, look, fill, and drink.

It was a present from an ex-student who was then working as a Senate aide: a young woman, Asian-American like many students at my university. And it came with an anecdote attached.

Every time my student was on the Senate floor, she told me, liberal cynosure Edward Kennedy would stop whatever he was doing, freeze, and stare.

Yes, Kennedy died many years ago, and he was alive then.

No, the Trump era is neither unique nor new.

Estampe XLII: air construction with sunbeam and tree

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/estampe-xlii-air-construction-with-sunbeam-and-tree/

Palace

"What the hell is this," he snarled, "a Tom show?"

-- Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust, chapter 11

When the posters for this Tom show came out of their lithograph press in 1898 they were stacked face to face. The damage to this surviving example has been permanent. It is still marked with the ghost of another face, in reverse. So far, however, damage has made this piece of printed matter more readable, not less. The ghostly countertext makes us work more productively at seeing the survivor, and as the paper has turned brown it has contributed shading after shading of new complexity to the survivor’s spectral record. The parade is more intelligent now.

In 1898, on the street, it was some horses, some mules, some dogs, and a model house made portable on a wagon. In the mind, it was a communication from a text off-poster -- a text whose full title was Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. There, off-poster, the on-poster word "sumptuous" seemed not to refer to anything. But in 2017, with all sense of what "sumptuous" might have meant in 1898 obliterated by what's called progress, the palace cars can be seen as such, only as elements within a picture. And there, now, solely within the picture, at last! the palace cars have become one with the classical architecture of their mounting: in an ideal approximation of color, their shading completed by the passage of time, no longer on a mere overpass but on a plinth, no longer cramped smelly boring as they would have been in 1898 but, as the poster's words promise, regal. In 1898 the pageant was a crudely literal play within a play and Al. W. Martin's employees with their mule-propelled cabin were only rude mechanicals like Bottom and the boys in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2017, surviving through time as a provisionally immortal snapshot, the pageant is seen at last as snapshot sees: mules and dogs and little black actress, stilled in transit toward us, passing just now and forever beneath a palace in the air.
 
Having become a fossil, the mammoth production invites us to enter its matrix and see it within lithograph stone.  

Source: Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014636392/. Photoshopped.

Nature morte: the view from the faculty lounge

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/nature-morte-the-view-from-the-faculty-lounge/

청자

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/%ec%b2%ad%ec%9e%90/

1920: the noble spirit of Edward Gorey descends over a Soviet library

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/1920-the-noble-spirit-of-edward-gorey-descends-over-a-soviet-library/

Allegory carved in eternal wood

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/allegory-carved-in-eternal-wood/

island island leaf

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/island-island-leaf/

Under the Trump administration, librarians will get the respect they deserve

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/under-the-trump-administration-librarians-will-get-the-respect-they-deserve/

Archaic preposition

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/archaic-preposition/

Estampe XLI

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/estampe-xli/

Orange in tooth and claw

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/orange-in-tooth-and-claw/

Notes toward a theory of this portrait

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/notes-toward-a-theory-of-this-portrait/

Military maternity, perilous token of courtly love, and, on the prison road, touch: three women in wartime

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/women-in-wartime-three-traces-in-the-record/

Hooded consciousness and color as mask: toward a theory of the portrait

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/hooded-consciousness-and-color-as-mask-toward-a-theory-of-the-portrait/

Language note: the possessiveness of the pronoun "our"

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/language-note-the-possessiveness-of-the-pronoun-our/

She touches the leaf

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/she-touches-the-leaf/

Billie Holiday, born April 7, 1915

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/billie-holiday-born-april-7-1915-2/

Diag

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/diag/

David, Magritte, Flora

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/david-magritte-flora/

Librarians in their aspect of healers

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/librarians-in-their-aspect-of-healers/

Explanatory caption

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/explanatory-caption/

Conservative statesman II

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/conservative-statesman-ii/

Conservative statesman

It is not enough to DO the arabesque. One must THINK the arabesque.

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/it-is-not-enough-to-do-the-arabesque-one-must-think-the-arabesque/

Estampe XL: 102 years before the Trump administration

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/estampe-xl-102-years-before-the-trump-administration/

Content though blind, had I no better guide

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/content-though-blind-had-i-no-better-guide/

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven!

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/thou-waitest-for-the-spark-from-heaven/

Anatomy: consciousness originates deep within the body

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/anatomy-consciousness-originates-deep-within-the-body/

What rough beast

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/what-rough-beast/

Peach with shoulder pads

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/peach-with-shoulder-pads/

Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/undrape-you-are-not-guilty-to-me-nor-stale-nor-discarded/

Transport VII: through heavy rain, the squadron

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/transport-vii-through-heavy-rain-the-squadron/

Anadyomene attended by myrmidons

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/anadyomene-attended-by-myrmidons/

Gender-marked language: a general erratum

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/gender-marked-language-a-general-erratum/

Estampe XXXIX

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/estampe-xxxix/

From the world of William Carlos Williams (requires red-and-blue stereo viewer)

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/from-the-world-of-william-carlos-williams-requires-red-and-blue-stereo-viewer/

Orange: the countervailing silent beauty of the complex

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/orange-the-countervailing-silent-beauty-of-the-complex/

At the beginning of an era of factitious hair, he contemplates the related ideas of beauty and nobility

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/at-the-beginning-of-an-era-of-factitious-hair-he-contemplates-the-related-ideas-of-beauty-and-nobility/

Venetian blind

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/venetian-blind/

My noon had come to dine

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/my-noon-had-come-to-dine/

Actor; sound barrier

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/actor-sound-barrier/

That H

http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/that-h/