Jon Pountney @JonPountney1
ONLY AN EYE, BUT MY GOD WHAT AN EYE! jonpountney.co.uk Pontypridd, Wales Joined December 2009-
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Wales, out West 2
Wales, out West
Longbarrow Press was launched in Sheffield 18 years ago today. Over the next few hours, we'll post 18 loosely threaded tweets - anecdotal, aphoristic, archival - that reflect on the ethos and evolution of the press. What we do, how we do it, why we do it. In no particular order.
Loved 'The Allure of Ruins' selection of @JonPountney1 work @gallery__ten #Cardiff Recording industrial/post-industrial #Wales 'Very often I'm the only person there.' So true Jon.
More Valleys wandering- Ynyshir yesterday I really dislike modern vehicles, but with this I thought how much longer will we have Post vans?
The Allure of Ruins is open! 10 years of work can now be seen on the wall. Prints are available from @gallery__ten online and in person, and the show is open Weds-Sat until the 25th of May gallery-ten.co.uk/jon-pountney-t…
Forgot to do my cultural corner of Twitter because I've been too busy, but here is... One of my favourites, Guido Guidi
Captivating photographs by @JonPountney1 on show @gallery__ten Cardiff. Brought to mind the paintings of my late friend & former colleague George Little.
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Finally got permission yesterday to visit the school used in Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968). Really great visit, especially as we found which bit of the roof was used in the final scene. Full article of the visits will be on the BFI's website next month.
@arthistorynews Thanks Bendor. Really interesting. I thought I had made my admiration for Clark clear but culture warriors didn’t notice! I do spot, though, a totalising tendency .. making the West = the world (as with the Apollo Belvedere). M Gill I’ve read wanted to avoid ‘C word’ entirely.
… I think the trend in both public history and academia is, first, moving away from ‘big picture’ stuff in favour of narrower focused events, and secondly, a desire to cling more closely to what is perceived to be ‘the consensus’. >
And yet, who am I trying to kid here - isn’t the most problematic thing about Civilisation is that it reveals how far away we are from ever seeing it’s like again (at least on the BBC)? END 🧵
I think that in public history and art history we’re now increasingly wary of both giving and accepting ‘personal views’. For fear perhaps of sparking the kind of culture war moment Mary Beard’s views seem to have sparked. But also… >
But at the same time Clark is not as pro-British as you night think. In fact, Shakespeare and Turner aside he curiously ambiguous about British art. And that to me reveals the enduring strength and appeal of Civilisation - it is his ‘personal view’. >
Which brings me onto what is to me the most obvious but (given the times) somewhat understandable flaw in ‘Civilisation’. That Clark was evidently strongly guided by feelings of nation and what he viewed as national traits. >
‘If I had been talking about the history of art, it would not have been possible to leave out Spain; but when one asks what Spain has done to enlarge the human mind and pull mankind a few steps up the hill, the answer is less clear’. >
Mary notes in her BBC introduction that Clark didn’t go to Spain, but says he wanted to. That said, in his introduction to the book of the scripts, Clark frankly says Spain made little contribution to western civilisation. >
As to content, Clark later felt he had to stress the merits and limitations of telly (something non-telly makers too easily lose sight of, as in ‘why didn’t you mention…?’). >
I am amazed that even Mary's sensible and thoughtful reflections on Kenneth Clark's 'Civilisation' can be caught up in a culture war spat. I daresay Clark would have seen it as a sign of impending barbarism. But fwiw, here's some more thoughts from me. 🧵
If people would like to see what I said in a few minutes to provoke the ire of some cuture warriors, here it is tinyurl.com/mu7x3aee I think that K Clark himself would have engaged more constructively and politely!
Clark is often attacked on the basis of what he didn't include in 'Civilisation', as if he thought the non-Western world was uncivilised. Not True. The word western was intended to be in the title. Thus, 'Western Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark'. >
And Clark realised early on that the title and the Western focus might be problematic, as we’d say today. Personally I think the reasons his gives for limiting his focus to what he knew about, are admirable. >
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