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Post by mrbrklyn on Jul 13, 2019 12:29:04 GMT -5
Well, I already posted most of the significant artistic eras and the protegees and masters of them as examples that not all eras produce the same quality of works and that these greats in history are almost always noted early in there careers and recognized as the greatest in there fields of all time. And yet you persist to say that such periods and eras are some form of an illusion. There was no Renascence, or the Dutch Golden Age, or era of literary greats or poetry. So you disagree with every scholar in the humanities and arts on this matter... so it is not being irrational on your part. How would you describe it? I only ask because as an Art History major I never read a single scholarly article that objectively stated that the art(whether literary, musically or visually) produced in one era was superior to the art produced in another. Samuel van Hoogstraten .. for a start.. Giorgio Vasari, Heinrich Wolffin, Fredrick Hart.. "despite the brevity of the High Renaissance - 25 years at most - the principles establish in Florence and Rome in the early sixteenth century provided a set of norms for much of European art of at least three centuries." On the Dutch: With great skill and industry, and in the unbelievable numbers, Dutch painters set about supplying this new demand for paintings (not sculpture, which apparently nobody wanted). That they were able to do so, and to maintain so consistently high a level of quality, is one of the miracles of history; only Periclean Athens or fifteenth century Florence had anything like the number of good painters in proportion to the general population. Do I need to fish out more examples to make the point? |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 14, 2019 8:27:00 GMT -5
I only ask because as an Art History major I never read a single scholarly article that objectively stated that the art(whether literary, musically or visually) produced in one era was superior to the art produced in another. Samuel van Hoogstraten .. for a start.. Giorgio Vasari, Heinrich Wolffin, Fredrick Hart.. "despite the brevity of the High Renaissance - 25 years at most - the principles establish in Florence and Rome in the early sixteenth century provided a set of norms for much of European art of at least three centuries." On the Dutch: With great skill and industry, and in the unbelievable numbers, Dutch painters set about supplying this new demand for paintings (not sculpture, which apparently nobody wanted). That they were able to do so, and to maintain so consistently high a level of quality, is one of the miracles of history; only Periclean Athens or fifteenth century Florence had anything like the number of good painters in proportion to the general population. Do I need to fish out more examples to make the point? Are there more to those articles than what you've supplied here? I don't know, maybe it's a deficiency in my reading skills...but I don't see where the author(or authors, you didn't site the source) claimed that the art produced in the eras mentioned was objectively superior in quality to other eras. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 16, 2019 20:19:04 GMT -5
How have I missed Tim Hamilton's adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 before? Did anyone nominate this in last year's ccf christmas?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 22, 2019 20:10:44 GMT -5
Finally cracking open some more of the adaptations people nominated last Class Comics Christmas and I'm loving Comico's Johnny Quest! It really captures the feel of the show and the artists they use are fantastic. Loved seeing Steve Rude draw the Quest Gang again after loving his recent use of them.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 2, 2019 4:56:21 GMT -5
This past month I read 37 comics, the second lowest total since 2017 when I read 24 comics in October. Lots of 6 day work weeks and a Grandson in the house has made it so. I bought a run of Kyle Raynor Green Lanterns a while back and I started in on those books. It's a run that I reacquired from a sell off I had in the early 2000's. I really enjoyed that book.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 2, 2019 18:27:48 GMT -5
This past month I read 37 comics, the second lowest total since 2017 when I read 24 comics in October. Lots of 6 day work weeks and a Grandson in the house has made it so. I bought a run of Kyle Raynor Green Lanterns a while back and I started in on those books. It's a run that I reacquired from a sell off I had in the early 2000's. I really enjoyed that book. Long work weeks here too, as well as nice weather making me spend what little free time I did have outside. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 3, 2019 17:00:44 GMT -5
I continued my catch up with last year's ccf christmas and was sadly disappointed this time around. I'm a big fan of Indiana Jones so I was looking forward to the "Continuing Adventures" but it just didn't connect with me. The art was good, but the adventures just felt too tame, I definitely prefer the Dark Horse books to the Marvel ones.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 4, 2019 18:26:17 GMT -5
I just read Will Eisner's Hawks of the Seas for the first time and it just might be my new favorite newspaper strip. I've always loved swashbuckling adventure stories(Treasure Island just might be my favorite novel) so this was right up my alley.
I've heard good things about Terry and the Pirates as well, anybody have any experience with that?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 4, 2019 19:22:14 GMT -5
I just read Will Eisner's Hawks of the Seas for the first time and it just might be my new favorite newspaper strip. I've always loved swashbuckling adventure stories(Treasure Island just might be my favorite novel) so this was right up my alley. I've heard good things about Terry and the Pirates as well, anybody have any experience with that? Terry is very different than Hawks, but I quite like it. It is, however, a product of its times in terms of attitudes about Asia and Asians, and that can put some people off. I've read it in bits and pieces (I have 4-5 of the NBM volumes but have only read 3 so far), so my impressions are based on the parts I have read rather than the whole. -M I've heard it compared favorably to Johnny Quest, which is also a favorite of mine so I'd definitely like to learn more. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 13, 2019 12:48:50 GMT -5
I wish I had encountered Ian Edginton and D'Israeli's amazing take on War of the Worlds, it hands down would have topped out my list last year for best adaptation.
What's more is that it got me to try 2000 AD, I don't know why it's taken me so long as I love anthologies and I had a blast here.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 2, 2019 21:00:54 GMT -5
Well, as expected, the amount of reading I've been doing has greatly diminished in correlation to the start of the new school year. Any free time I've had, I've pretty much collapsed and slept. I hope to do better in September.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 5, 2019 8:30:29 GMT -5
With Labor Day weekend being in the 108-110 degree temperatures I spent Sunday and Monday under the cooling influence of the air conditioner binge watching CometTv and dug into a sweet pile of Charlton Comics Fightin' Marines with a break here and there to read some Marvel Rawhide Kid western adventures. A much needed turn off the brain and rest the body after August's headaches between home and work. Bring on the fall cool weather please!!!
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Post by The Captain on Sept 5, 2019 15:30:47 GMT -5
Glad to see that a new month has rolled around on the calendar, as I can't recall reading a single comic book in the month of August. Between two weeks of vacation out of the country and away from my collection to the start of school and all that entails, I was just too busy to pick up anything to read.
September, however, is the start of swim practice for my older daughter, so I get approximately 6-8 hours per week while she is in the pool to just sit in the bleachers and read. So far in September, I've read almost 40 books in the first four days, as I make it through anywhere between 8-10 during a two-hour practice (I've been reading the original Iron Man stories in Tales of Suspense and Master of Kung Fu, which both take longer than reading modern age books).
Here's hoping I can keep up the momentum in my quest to read at least 1,000 books this year, especially lots of ones that I haven't read before (aiming for an 80% minimum "new" read list, although there are series or issues that are "comfort food" items that I can pick up at any time and give a quick read when I have a little time to kill and don't want anything new or challenging).
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 1, 2019 5:57:23 GMT -5
The Totals for September was 86, mostly digital from Marvel Unlimited. My local comic store who I've been buying from for the last dozen years is closing up so I might just default to digital reading from now on.  |
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Post by The Captain on Oct 1, 2019 14:51:13 GMT -5
September was my second-highest reading total of the year so far, as I read 116 books. Lot of good stuff in there, including a huge chunk of Master of Kung Fu and the remaining original Journey Into Mystery issues with Thor that I didn't own the first time I read through my Thor collection.
I'm not surprised by the result of September winding up with such a high total. Swim season is back on for my older daughter, so there is a lot of time at the pool for me to read multiple nights each week. Hoping October keeps up the pace so I can reach at least 1,000 for the year.
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