Friday 10 February '12
(from Grizedale Arts Blog)
The Spiral of Success
Currently enjoying the light airport novel by Maxine Berg: The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815 - 1848. It includes this marvellous illustration by Burnett from 1826 to be hung in every Mechanics Institute in the land. It shows the King in the middle and spirals out through fifteen layers of revolution with the paupers in the workhouse at its tail: "the best informed and the most industrious will always, in their exertion to get forward, thrust out the more ignorant in the rear". Like an aspirational colon. Should be made into an app for for Art Facts. Nominations please for who's in the middle and who's left in a blue pastic doggy bag in a roadside hedge.
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2 Comments
Really nice illustration. Simple yet very meaningful. I'd love to have a copy of that novel.
Jeremy @Magazine Printing, February 22, 2012 05:37
That reminds me of the old Fischer Fine Art constellation with the artist in the middle,dealers and critics in close orbit and the rest of us further out in space. So on a more molecular Brian Cox level, if Lawson Park is an orange, and I am a grape, where does that leave me in South Lakeland?
Harvey Wilkinson, March 24, 2012 10:07