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

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

Always love to catch some #precisionism in the wild, especially if it pertains to the vast industrial system of inland ports. Here’s Edmund Lewandowski’s Wisconsin Ore Freighter (1948) which hangs amidst the midcentury furniture at the Milwaukee Museum of Art. #maritimemodernism #maritimehistory #greatlakes

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

Question for #BookHistory and #Modernism types: is the typographer Bruce Rogers a meaningful name to you? I’m in a little research eddy on Joseph Conrad commemoration culture and Rogers shows up in January of ‘35 to carve this Conrad figurehead in plein air in the Gowanus Drydock after Alan Villiers wrecks his frigate in the harbor. A strange scene. #MaritimeModernism #Maritime #MaritimeHistory 🧐

Question for #BookHistory and #Modernism types: is the typographer Bruce Rogers a meaningful name to you? I’m in a little research eddy on Joseph Conrad commemoration culture and Rogers shows up in January of ‘35 to carve this Conrad figurehead in plein air in the Gowanus Drydock after Alan Villiers wrecks his frigate in the harbor. A strange scene. #MaritimeModernism 🧐

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

Biked home tonight through a wet illinois snow in a yellow mackintosh i got on the docks in hamburg a few months ago.

#maritimemodernism

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