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'I have one aim - the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.' - Aubrey Beardsley, whose work shocked and delighted Victorian society, was born on this day in 1872.
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🖋️ Aubrey Beardsley, Cover Design for ‘The Yellow Book’ Vol.I, 1894. On free display at Tate Britain.
eastern length of Silk Road
Their double-humped back identifies these figurines as Bactrian camels, which were commonly used on the eastern length of the Silk Road.
Their shaggy winter coats, recreated here by incising lines to texture the clay, helped them stay warm in the steppes of Central Asia where temperatures could plummet to -29° C.
Five figurines of Bactrian camels. Clay, China, 1st–6th century AD. Read more: http://ow.ly/Hc6950NWsSVWhat Chipperfield remains most exercised about these days, however, is what he sees as an unrestrained free market, undirected investment, a reactive planning process and how our culture fosters consumerism.
A somewhat less "ludicrously capacious bag" from The New York Public Library Shop. Browse Spring accessories and apparel: https://on.nypl.org/3nylCrM
“The class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part." Karl Marx:
" Look alive ! look alive ! oho ! " and the scavengers drew out of the way, the pedestrians sprang back, the mud gushed against the coach-windows ; they passed dung-carts, cabs, and omnibuses. At length, the iron gate of the Jardin des Plantes came into sight.
In other developments, available phone numbers ran out, forcing the introduction of unpleasant new area codes. “Awesome” went from being a risible word used only by stoners and surfers to an acceptably ubiquitous modifier, the Starbucks of adjectives.
From Intelligent Life: The history of chess is a history of metaphors and moral lessons. It emerged in fifth-century India, and wherever it has gone since has been a ludic mirror-image of the world around ithttp://econ.st/1MaX5Nk
risible
Pronunciation: /ˈrɪzɪb(ə)l/
adjectiveDerivatives
risibly
adverb
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense 'inclined to laughter'): from late Latin risibilis, from Latin ris- 'laughed', from the verb ridereludic
ˈluːdɪk/
adjective
formal
- showing spontaneous and undirected playfulness.
ludicrous
Pronunciation: /ˈluːdɪkrəs, ˈljuː-/
Translate ludicrous | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish adjective
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense 'sportive, intended as a jest'): from Latin ludicrus (probably from ludicrum 'stage play') + -ousantic
n.
- A ludicrous or extravagant act or gesture; a caper.
- Archaic. A buffoon, especially a performing clown.
Ludicrously odd; fantastic.
[From Italian antico, ancient (used of grotesque designs on some ancient Roman artifacts), from Latin antīquus, former, old.]
antically an'ti·cal·ly adv.gro·tesque (grō-tĕsk')
adj.
- Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner.
- Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance. See synonyms at fantastic.
- Of, relating to, or being the grotesque style in art or a work executed in this style.
- One that is grotesque.
- A style of painting, sculpture, and ornamentation in which natural forms and monstrous figures are intertwined in bizarre or fanciful combinations.
- A work of art executed in this style.
[From French, a fanciful style of decorative art, from Italian grottesca, from feminine of grottesco, of a grotto, from grotta, grotto. See grotto.]
grotesquely gro·tesque'ly adv.grotesqueness gro·tesque'ness n.
at length
1. In full, extensively. For example, The preacher went on at length about sin, or I have read at length about these cameras. [c. 1500]
2. After a long time, finally, as in At length the procession ended. [Early 1500s] Also see in the long run.
length
- 音節length
- 発音léŋθ, léŋkθ, léntθ
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