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In the final episode of our Lanuage Trilogy we talked about Charles Jencks's 'The Language of Post-Modern Architecture', first published in 1977, the book and argument developed over the course of the 1980s as ideas about post-modernism as an architectural style and set of princi ...  Show more

In the second episode of our 'Language' trilogy, we discussed Bruno Zevi's 'The Modern Language of Architecture', first published in Italian as 'Il linguaggio moderno dell'architettura' in 1978, partly in response to Summerson's 'The Classical Language of Architecture' the subjec ...  Show more

The conclusion of the adventure, the confron-tation with Humbaba. *** The image is a Sumerian clay model of the face of Humbaba, said to be the image of coiled intestines.
 Music excerpt is 
“Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis” from the album, Vaughan Williams: Symphonic Works 

At the intersection of past and future sits a pack of hormonal dudes punching each other and making beautiful art. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/10/30/episode-23-umberto-boccionis-unique-forms-of-continuity-in-space-1913 Music used: The Andrews Sist ...  Show more

An escape from war-torn Germany. Lavish dinners with Hollywood royalty. A Swedish baron and a dime-store heiress: we explore the long journey of a Van Gogh still life — and what it says about the real value of the things we treasure.Get Revisionist History updates first by signin ...  Show more