fuck the clock
June 2013
15 posts
“Your eyes make me shy.”
—Anaïs Nin (via pantophobiaisatrick)
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.” —Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via theknopeway)
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.” —Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via theknopeway)
i love medieval art it’s like
first there’s a bull just shittin on this guy
gremlin dude shooting arrows into a mermaids ass ok
someone fuckin boneless dancing to this hot violin song what
my favorite one a bunch of amputees beating the shit outta each other with crutches
idk why they call it the dark ages when they’re obviously so fun
This is why I majored in Art History. Right here.
May 2013
67 posts
this is the piece that made me fall in love with art history because at first youre all oh thats a cool painting of saint agatha
wait a minute… is that
hell yes. tits on a platter
