Newsletter, June 2012 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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Joseph Mazur</a></h3> <p>Though symbols and words help to form our thoughts and viewpoints, only symbols can shape the complexities of communicable ideas into cohesive expressions. Words can do the same and are necessary to explain thoughts and ideas.  But because words transiently deal with one thought at a time, they can quickly fall into cracks of muddle while a blitz of advancing words aims to pin down a thought. Symbols in mathematics are tightly defined by the explaining words that define them, they awake suggestive thoughts that might not be directly intended by the words themselves.</p> <p><a href="/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/news-events/Newsletter-June-2012/Conversations-Observations-on-Inspiration-by-Joseph-Mazur/" class="LinkMore">More</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class="feature-photo"> <p><img width="315" height="473" alt="" src="/web/20121006140912im_/http://www.gf.org/system/assets/0000/3581/EdwardHirsch_315_watermarked_JulieDermansky.original.jpg?1338391796"/></p> </td> <td> <h3><a href="/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/news-events/Newsletter-June-2012/A-short-Q-A-with-Edward-Hirsch-Poet-Critic-and-President-of-the-Guggenheim-Foundation/">A short Q & A with Edward Hirsch, Poet, Critic, and President of the Guggenheim Foundation</a></h3> <p>The literary scholar Marjorie Hope Nicolson, who received a Fellowship in 1926, once remarked: “It would be difficult for young scholars today to understand what the Guggenheim Foundation meant to my generation, which was the first to have the opportunity to study under its auspices. . . . Yale University from which I took my Ph.D. had, I seem to remember, only one traveling fellowship to offer and the chances for a woman were even slighter than for a man.  The announcement of the establishment of Guggenheim Fellowships, which appeared in the papers some time in 1925, seemed incredible.” </p> <p><a href="/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/news-events/Newsletter-June-2012/A-short-Q-A-with-Edward-Hirsch-Poet-Critic-and-President-of-the-Guggenheim-Foundation/" class="LinkMore">More</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class="feature-photo"> <p><img width="315" height="297" src="/web/20121006140912im_/http://www.gf.org/system/assets/0000/3582/Poskovic_Endi_Toronto_studio_with_Jill_4_315.original.jpg?1338391877" alt=""/></p> </td> <td> <h3><a href="/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/news-events/Newsletter-June-2012/The-Everyday-Reality-of-a-Different-World-Endi-Poskovic-Shares-his-Vision/">The Everyday Reality of a Different World: Endi Poskovic Shares his Vision</a></h3> <p>As a child growing up in Sarajevo in the 1970s, I first discovered the world around me through mark-making … Awed by graphic-arts traditions and printmakers such as Käthe Kollwitz, James Ensor, Goya, and others, I began to view myself as an image-maker, an artist, who by conscious choice makes prints, multiple images designed to be more easily disseminated than unique objects of art.</p> <p><a class="LinkMore" href="/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/news-events/Newsletter-June-2012/The-Everyday-Reality-of-a-Different-World-Endi-Poskovic-Shares-his-Vision/">More</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class="feature-photo"> <p><img width="315" height="366" src="/web/20121006140912im_/http://www.gf.org/system/assets/0000/3583/Don_with_his_books-yatesbw_315.original.jpg?1338391937" alt=""/></p> </td> <td> <h3><a href="/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/news-events/Newsletter-June-2012/Remembering-Borges-by-Donald-Yates/">Remembering Borges by Donald Yates</a></h3> <p>It pleases me to think that our <em>Labyrinths</em> has helped to convince English-language readers of the importance of this writer, once scarcely known in his own country, who now gives his name to an adjective created to characterize a certain type of prose fiction. We have long had “Kafkaesque”; we now have “Borgesian.”</p> <p><a class="LinkMore" href="/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/news-events/Newsletter-June-2012/Remembering-Borges-by-Donald-Yates/">More</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="ClearFix"></div> </div> </div>   <div id="RightColumn"> <div class="wysiwyg-output"> </div> </div>  <div class="ClearFix"></div>  <div id="FooterWrapper"> <div id="PageFooter"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a><span>|</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/terms-of-use">Terms of Use</a><span>|</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/sitemap">Sitemap</a><span>|</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://list-manage.com/subscribe?u=59d983d0914a509b37f82546c&id=5039a73dec" onclick="return newsletter_popup('https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://list-manage.com/subscribe?u=59d983d0914a509b37f82546c&id=5039a73dec')" target="_blank">Sign up for Updates</a><span>|</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://www.gf.org/about-the-foundation/contact-us">Contact Us</a></p> <p>Copyright © 2012</p> </div> <div id="SocialLinks"> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?app_id=210848718962748&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FJohn-Simon-Guggenheim-Memorial-Foundation%2F130008750420913&send=false&layout=button_count&width=90&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&font=arial&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:21px;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://twitter.com/GuggFellows" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-show-screen-name="false" data-width="77px">Follow @GuggFellows</a> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140912/http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsgmf/" target="_blank"><img src="/web/20121006140912im_/http://www.gf.org/images/icon.flckr.gif" width="16" height="20" alt="Flickr"><span>Flickr</span></a> </div> <div class="ClearFix"></div> </div>  <div class="ClearFix"></div> </div>  <hr/> </div>  </div>   <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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