Thoughts on Modernity and the Visual: Image and Text
As our final class has now come and gone, I find myself reflecting on what we have looked at as a whole. …
The Green Sheaf: A Natural Connection to Mysticism
Our discussion after the presentation about formatting our own content really made think about the important role editors played when constructing little …
The Pageant and the Merging of Art and Commerce
The creators of The Pageant held in high regard the idea of their magazine being practical and beautiful in equal measure. The …
The Pageant and the Fight Against Ephemerality
It is so interesting to learn about how The Pageant was so similar to The Yellow Book and so different from The …
“The Invisible Princess” and Pre-Raphaelite idealism
In the discussion today on The Pageant’s second volume I found the image “The Invisible Princess” by Laurence Housman super intriguing. We …
‘Art for the sake of Art’- Then & Now
Through the analysis of Charles Ricketts’ and Charles Shannon’s – the editors of The Dial – intentions in producing the volume of the …
I Spy With My Little Eye
Today’s discussion of intended audience got me thinking about the Modernist ideal of active reading. In Modernist literature, many writers purposefully leave …
Intertextuality in The Dial
The Dial was a counter-culture magazine first published in 1889. Very much created as art for art’s sake, the magazine was anti-capitalist, …
Keep the Queer Hush Hush – The Dial
We had Christina’s presentation on “Queer Making in the Dial” today. What I found the most interesting from today’s discussion was the …
Concept of Rebirth and Everlasting in ”The Evergreen A Northern Seasonal”
In the seasonally themed little magazine The Evergreen: A Nothern Seasonal, Winter, I found the concept of an everlasting piece of art really interesting. …