Patrick Wright - cultural historian - is seriously cool, and here is a recent article on the first Anti-Air War Memorial that confirms it. Really, do read it!
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Cool, both article itself and subject matter. I never knew there was a movement to abolish bombing from planes in the 1930s. The present obscurity of the sculpture seems fitting.
I just saw a TV programme called the Mark Steel Lectures, the subject of which was Sylvia Pankhurst. There was a section where the presenter stood in front of this very stone bomb for a short while and addressed the camera on an unrelated topic. The sculpture was not mentioned at all. But I saw it and thought "ah, yes" and nodded sagely.
I felt a little rude having come here, left a comment and not even read the article. So I've just gone and read it. And I suspect you're right, Wright does possess a certain coolness. And I was very intrigued reading about Germany lobbying to abolish the bomb in the 30's. The article feels like one of those that produces a certain re-evaluation in our associations with and perceptions of reality. I like it.
Yes Richard! Well said. Re-evaluation. I did feel a sort of shift, like a hole appearing somewhere in my thought-strucure and everything caving in to fill it again (sort of) while reading that article. But I was not preceptive enough to notice it conciously and to articulate it, y'know.
6 comments:
Cool, both article itself and subject matter. I never knew there was a movement to abolish bombing from planes in the 1930s. The present obscurity of the sculpture seems fitting.
I just saw a TV programme called the Mark Steel Lectures, the subject of which was Sylvia Pankhurst. There was a section where the presenter stood in front of this very stone bomb for a short while and addressed the camera on an unrelated topic. The sculpture was not mentioned at all. But I saw it and thought "ah, yes" and nodded sagely.
Ah, I can imagine very crisply, you in the act of nodding sagely. Excellent.
I felt a little rude having come here, left a comment and not even read the article. So I've just gone and read it. And I suspect you're right, Wright does possess a certain coolness. And I was very intrigued reading about Germany lobbying to abolish the bomb in the 30's. The article feels like one of those that produces a certain re-evaluation in our associations with and perceptions of reality. I like it.
Yes Richard! Well said. Re-evaluation. I did feel a sort of shift, like a hole appearing somewhere in my thought-strucure and everything caving in to fill it again (sort of) while reading that article. But I was not preceptive enough to notice it conciously and to articulate it, y'know.
ee nicleclaus ye be a self-effacing sweetie so y'are.
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