{"id":26451,"date":"2019-06-02T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=26451"},"modified":"2019-06-02T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:35:04","slug":"more-on-la-farge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/02\/more-on-la-farge\/","title":{"rendered":"More on La Farge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest <em>University Bookman<\/em>, Stephen Schmalhofer takes a trip <a href=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/essays\/from-new-york-to-chartres-with-la-farge\/\">&#8220;From New York to Chartres with La Farge&#8221;<\/a> and examines this macabre Providence artist&#8217;s later stained-glass work and his influence on other creatives of his time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adams came to understand that gothic architecture was not gloomy. \u201cThe necessity for light was the motive of the gothic architects,\u201d he writes of Chartres. \u201cThey needed light and always more light, until they sacrificed safety and common-sense in trying to get it.\u201d Cortissoz observes that La Farge\u2019s art contained \u201clittle knots of form, meant to hold color in solution; cunningly wrought webs in which to imprison light\u201d and his windows were \u201ccurtains of jewels hung between us and the light, pieces of some new kind of luminous poetry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d previously noted the early print illustration work of this Providence artist, in my post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/a-macabre-providence-artist\/\">&#8220;A macabre Providence artist&#8221;<\/a>.  There I observed that Lovecraft&#8217;s discovery of him had coincided with the writing of &#8220;The Rats in the Walls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bishop-hatto-and-the-rats-henry-marsh1.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"668\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15495\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest University Bookman, Stephen Schmalhofer takes a trip &#8220;From New York to Chartres with La Farge&#8221; and examines &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/02\/more-on-la-farge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}