tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post6448044364525589014..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Independence Museum in Tel AvivHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-21087098902371865312015-07-07T10:59:13.690+10:002015-07-07T10:59:13.690+10:00Dina
I am so old, I almost remember Meir Dizengof...Dina<br /><br />I am so old, I almost remember Meir Dizengoff becoming Tel Aviv's first mayor :) Well not quite but I certainly do remember when David Ben Gurion ended his prime ministership for the first time in 1954. The family didn't think that Moshe Sharett would be as significant.<br /><br />Amazing the stuff we remember. My grandmother had the big portrait of Herzl, overlooking the Rhine in Basel, on her lounge room wall. <br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-90161867574078997362015-07-06T17:01:20.416+10:002015-07-06T17:01:20.416+10:00Thanks for this nice post and interesting comments...Thanks for this nice post and interesting comments and the photo from inside the museum. I've still not been inside it. Dinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461925401870320466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-3824825490889271872014-12-23T00:56:04.270+11:002014-12-23T00:56:04.270+11:00Parnassus
Interesting point! Most people think it...Parnassus<br /><br />Interesting point! Most people think it would be simple. Take an old home, repair the windows and tiles, paint in heritage colours and rip up the wall-to-wall carpets, exposing the original floor boards.<br /><br />One of the big issues for restorers is ...which incarnation to return to. Sometimes historians will want to go back to the original version of the house. But it may have been renovated quite a number of times in the interim, as tastes changed and as different families moved in. <br /><br />Do the records and images survive from each incarnation of the house? What if the heavy Victorian taste wiped out the lighter, more subtle Georgian designs?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-7661155397426300052014-12-22T18:46:18.568+11:002014-12-22T18:46:18.568+11:00Hello Hels, By a coincidence, I was just reading a...Hello Hels, By a coincidence, I was just reading about the Tel Aviv museum, something about an exhibit concerning fake antiquities. I think your point about house museums is a very interesting one. Nothing else can capture as well the aura of a specific time, when you know that the people in question actually roamed these rooms and lived their lives within the constraints of the architecture of the building. <br /><br />While furniture and displays are nice, I often like to go one step further and visit empty houses, in which I can see more of the construction, and roam the rooms and halls myself, free of impediments. Furniture and other decor I can recreate in my mind, but the actual circulation patterns are unique to each house and period.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-32017291876272463002014-12-22T16:21:10.320+11:002014-12-22T16:21:10.320+11:00Aliza
nod. I have heard that said many times. Per...Aliza<br /><br />nod. I have heard that said many times. Personally I am not as interested in Biblical and post Biblical history as I am in: <br /><br />mass migration waves in the late C19th, <br />creation of kibbutzim, <br />draining of the Hula swamps, <br />building world class universities & medical centres, <br />modern town planning, and <br />establishment of the state in 1948.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-61631178772549819922014-12-22T09:30:00.352+11:002014-12-22T09:30:00.352+11:00Tel Aviv is such a 20th century city. Normally I g...Tel Aviv is such a 20th century city. Normally I go to ancient cities for history tours and save Tel Aviv for the beach, restaurants, concerts.Alizanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-69242323786424426662014-12-20T20:32:34.201+11:002014-12-20T20:32:34.201+11:00Train Man
After Bauhaus was closed down in 1933 a...Train Man<br /><br />After Bauhaus was closed down in 1933 and the students/staff had to leave, many of them could not go back to their family homes in Eastern Europe. Thus it was Paris, London, Hew York or Chicago, if they could get a visa. Or Tel Aviv. <br /><br />Tel Aviv was a perfect blank canvas for the young Bauhaus architects, to the extent that the city became known as the White City.<br /><br />You might like to see http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2008/12/bauhaus-moved-to-tel-aviv.htmlHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-66872975661190981442014-12-20T20:21:50.863+11:002014-12-20T20:21:50.863+11:00Andrew
Thank you! I decided long ago that the way...Andrew<br /><br />Thank you! I decided long ago that the way to really understand history is not via text books, royal chronicles or art galleries but by spending time in perfectly preserved house-museums. <br /><br />My paternal grandma migrated from Russia to the East End of London. The large house was shared by four complete families, and the one toilet was on the other side of the lane. Grandma, her two parents, one uncle and her 9 siblings had two bedrooms.<br /><br />Visiting one of those flats taught me more about the immigrant experience than all the history texts ever written. <br /><br />Ditto the Independence Museum in Tel AvivHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-71216725758961455052014-12-20T09:36:40.321+11:002014-12-20T09:36:40.321+11:00When we looked at Bauhaus architects in class, man...When we looked at Bauhaus architects in class, many of them went on to make stellar careers for themselves in Tel Aviv. Dizengoff's house still looks to be in great shape.Train Mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-41276067674053945592014-12-20T08:24:05.407+11:002014-12-20T08:24:05.407+11:00You have such a way to compress history into memor...You have such a way to compress history into memorable chunks with salient points.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com