The Pageant: The Dial’s Big Sister?
I loved seeing the maturation and expansion of some of The Dial‘s ideas in The Pageant today. The reflective and neurotic self-explication …
The Pageant: Past and Present
I was particularly interested in this mediation between past and present in The Pageant. The catchphrases stood out to me because of …
On Beauty in Practicality and Practicality in Beauty
November 23rd, 2020 In today’s seminar, the “and” in “Arts and Crafts” clicked for me. I had vaguely understood the movement as …
The Pageant and its Foreword
An editorial note is one of the best, most accessible ways to enter into a little magazine for it offers …
Elements Borrowed: On Charles Ricketts’ Reimagining of Russian Folk Tale
November 16th, 2020 The Dial’s co-editors Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon searched for ideas, inspiration, and material across time periods and cultures. …
‘Art for the sake of Art’- Then & Now
Through the analysis of Charles Ricketts’ and Charles Shannon’s – the editors of The Dial – intentions in producing the volume of the …
The Dial and its Obsession with Art
What really fascinated me about The Dial as a little magazine, is the incredible attention to detail. Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts …
I Spy With My Little Eye
Today’s discussion of intended audience got me thinking about the Modernist ideal of active reading. In Modernist literature, many writers purposefully leave …
Interesting Concepts from This Week
This week I was fascinated by a few concepts that were brought up in class. The first was the Aestheticist premise that …
Intertextuality in The Dial
The Dial was a counter-culture magazine first published in 1889. Very much created as art for art’s sake, the magazine was anti-capitalist, …