Keith Bresnahan
@designhist.bsky.social
Historian of design, emotions, 19C France, destruction, ruins and the like. writing a book about the aftermath of the Paris Commune.
Still the best argument I’ve heard for arts education.
June 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Still the best argument I’ve heard for arts education.
Reading this description like I'm a CanLit author, ca. 1976:
"Hear me out, what if the coworker is a bear"
"Hear me out, what if the coworker is a bear"
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Reading this description like I'm a CanLit author, ca. 1976:
"Hear me out, what if the coworker is a bear"
"Hear me out, what if the coworker is a bear"
Perhaps a bit early in the season yet, but I’m feeling festive, so here’s my all-time fave piece of medieval sculpture: Gislebertus’s “dream of the Magi” at Saint-Lazare cathedral in Autun, ça. 1130. Look at these guys, all snuggled together. And the face of the one who just woke up, aww.
December 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Perhaps a bit early in the season yet, but I’m feeling festive, so here’s my all-time fave piece of medieval sculpture: Gislebertus’s “dream of the Magi” at Saint-Lazare cathedral in Autun, ça. 1130. Look at these guys, all snuggled together. And the face of the one who just woke up, aww.
Also, I had no idea Brigitte Macron wore so many different hats 😉
#oxfordcomma
#oxfordcomma
November 29, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Also, I had no idea Brigitte Macron wore so many different hats 😉
#oxfordcomma
#oxfordcomma
As someone currently writing a book about the remaking of Parisian space after the fires of 1871, I’m following all the Notre-Dame unveiling news today with interest. So many parallels, not least of which is the way these projects get mobilized for political capital.
November 29, 2024 at 1:56 PM
As someone currently writing a book about the remaking of Parisian space after the fires of 1871, I’m following all the Notre-Dame unveiling news today with interest. So many parallels, not least of which is the way these projects get mobilized for political capital.
Oooh, all sounds amazing! Love the magnum. And Alsatian whites! Thanksgiving was last month up here, but it looked like this at our place.
November 28, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Oooh, all sounds amazing! Love the magnum. And Alsatian whites! Thanksgiving was last month up here, but it looked like this at our place.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
November 28, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
Following in the great tradition of this classic Wikipedia edit:
November 27, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Following in the great tradition of this classic Wikipedia edit:
Rob Young's book Electric Eden is very good on this:
November 25, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Rob Young's book Electric Eden is very good on this:
the NASA one is funny to me since El Lissitzky's poster is itself a reworking of a image that he lifted from a 1924 Soviet-American friendship magazine. It's recycled material all the way down!
November 22, 2024 at 3:52 AM
the NASA one is funny to me since El Lissitzky's poster is itself a reworking of a image that he lifted from a 1924 Soviet-American friendship magazine. It's recycled material all the way down!
another one: Italian futurist journal, 1932, and Peter Saville's New Order cover design, 1981
November 22, 2024 at 1:42 AM
another one: Italian futurist journal, 1932, and Peter Saville's New Order cover design, 1981
Currently reading this hyper-local history, put out by a small press located in the same neighbourhood as the book's subject. I kind of wish there were 19 other such studies, y'know? But I'll take it on its own.
November 19, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Currently reading this hyper-local history, put out by a small press located in the same neighbourhood as the book's subject. I kind of wish there were 19 other such studies, y'know? But I'll take it on its own.
Hmm, it seems to be a reworking a theme of his earlier Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper (1869), Brooklyn Museum. Now I'm curious to know more.
November 19, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Hmm, it seems to be a reworking a theme of his earlier Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper (1869), Brooklyn Museum. Now I'm curious to know more.
Noticed the cover on my patio furniture was suspiciously moving this am. Found this absolute chonk under there. I think I woke him up.
November 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Noticed the cover on my patio furniture was suspiciously moving this am. Found this absolute chonk under there. I think I woke him up.
Might be a day for lazing about and watching some library dvds
November 17, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Might be a day for lazing about and watching some library dvds
hmmmm yes, accurate.
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 AM
hmmmm yes, accurate.
