2016年4月24日 星期日

Daedalus, Icarus... Lewis Hine's "Icarus Atop Empire State Building" , Steamfitter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus


Jacob Peter Gowy's The Flight of Icarus.
Icarus and Daedalus Ancient red relief plastic pottery Beaker ,Roman - Greece
In Greek mythologyIcarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English;Ancient GreekἼκαροςÍkarosEtruscanVikare[1]) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus's father warns him first of complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, whereupon the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. This tragic theme of failure at the hands ofhubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon.

The Legend[edit]






 Oscar Wilde summed up my response to the Icarus myth perfectly:

Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.






 Cast-iron contracts and boardroom acquiescence in excessive rewards are supposedly justified by the need to attract high-fliers with wonderful living standards - and to maintain the latter after Icarus falls to earth.


Many iconic images, the kind long found on posters and greeting cards - Stieglitz's shot of a spindly tree framed by New York office towers on a rainy spring day; Weegee's teeming Coney Island hordes; Lewis Hine's "Icarus Atop Empire State Building" - will be joined by thousands of other works by eminent artists that the general public has rarely had an opportunity to see. There will also be collections of lesser-known photographers like Roman Vishniac, James VanDerZee and Ralph Eugene Meatyard.





The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hine’s iconic photograph of a mechanic in a Pennsylvania power plant celebrates the worker as a noble contributor to industry.
Featured Artwork of the Day: Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) | Steamfitter | 1921 http://met.org/1Vs0lY2


Engineering developments in the 1880s enabled the construction of large, multistory buildings using steel frames to support non-load-bearing walls, which soon dominated urban skylines. This Skyscraper Day, enjoy the rustic elegance of Lewis Hine’s “Icarus, Empire State Building."

沒有留言: