My office is strewn with old ephemera from port cities and marine #transshipment facilities. My 4 year old loves to come in and read “the boat books” and has shown some great curiosity. But I was surprised when, apropos of nothing, he correctly identified the content of the sacks conveyed by these Brazilian stevedores. #maritimemodernism #maritimehistory #intosteam

Today in #maritimemodernism, two German prints at the Milwaukee Museum of Art. #MaxPechstein, Head of a Sailor (woodcut, 1922), and #SellaHasse, Grain Carriers (linocut, 1916), from the Rhythms of Work series.

#maritime #maritimehistory #intosteam

The paint scraper is the most common trope of derogation for the deskilled marine trades in the age if steam. It was always a kind of contrapasso for the delusive fealty to a romance of imperial adventure. Yet it is shocking to see it here in as a scene of impressment for those falling shy of special ops. #maritimehistory #maritimemodernism #maritime #intosteam

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/us/navy-seals-recruits.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For whoever worries that time is a straight arrow, here are two Busters in the #Port of #LongBeach about a century apart. Also some "hot #sailors" in the #QueenMary engine room just to keep spirits high.

A few years ago I wrote about them and some other comedies of #postindustrial #waterfront #redevelopment for #ComparativeLiterature. (TBC)

#maritimemodernism #maritime #intosteam #maritimeculture #maritimehistory

So happy for the great john keene who wrote *another* jaw-droppingly, singularly great book, and for the book cover’s immortal play of sailor glances that dart everywhere along with the news of his national book award

#maritime #maritimemodernism #queermaritime #sailors #intosteam

So happy for the great john keene who wrote *another* jaw-droppingly, singularly great book, and for the book cover’s immortal play of sailor glances that dart everywhere along with the news

#maritime #maritimemodernism #queermaritime #sailors #intosteam

Albert Renger-Patszch’s 1930 #Hamburg dossier. The German #NewObjectivity in port, after Fritz Schumacher laments that Hamburg has never had a poet.

Shots of drydock include SS Europa shortly before its 4 day Blue Riband crossing

Some fine port snaps, like the crane here, for César Domela’s photomontage.

Most of the human presence is dwarfed by the monumental infrastructure—except a lone portrait of a blonde Hafenarbeiter #dockworker

#maritime #maritimemodernism #maritimehistory #intosteam

2 lamps painted on lacquered vellum by Benito Quinquela Martin (Buenos Aires, 1890–1977), Desklamp on wood snatch block. Dedicated to artist Ernestina Azlor. 1964. (Ebay sale) #maritime #maritimemodernism #maritimehistory #intosteam

Little dress up sailor with leashed steamer. Advertisement for children's clothier in Fray Mocho (Buenos Aires, April 1916)
#maritime #maritimemodernism #maritimehistory #intosteam

Two modern German writers with boats named after them:

Gorch Fock (1958), Deutsches Marine tall ship, used as a training vessel.

Thomas Mann (2003), container ship, built in Singapore, flagged in Malta, at some point decommissioned or lost.

As a writer, German or otherwise, what kind of boat are you?

#maritime #maritimemodernism #maritimehistory #intosteam #modernism

"Marinero" (Sailor). Concepción de Chile, Museum of Decorative Arts, 1936/1952.

A pert ceramic sailorboy of the southern oceans. I cannot for the life of me determine what he is cradling. The catalog suggestively says only “sostiene entre sus manos un objeto con orificio al centro.”

#maritime #maritimemodernism #maritimehistory #intosteam #sailor #marinero

https://www.surdoc.cl/registro/24-1243

Excavation of the #OsebergShip. 1904. via the Viking Ship Museum, Norway. Archaeological modernity meets #maritime antiquity. Reminds me of that Ungaretti title Il porto sepolto (“the buried harbor”). What a thing to pull out of the ground

#maritimemodernism #intosteam

Should i start a whole different handle for all my #maritimemodernism research jags or you people want that? I mean like here’s #MalcolmLowry in British Columbia in 1946. Detail expand for the #breachingwhales. #intosteam