tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post8133955340441866753..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: Chess in Art postscript : Evans' GambitTom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-38424394812926036992009-02-16T12:18:00.000+00:002009-02-16T12:18:00.000+00:00Bernstein was, I believe, the original revisionist...Bernstein was, I believe, the original revisionist but the discussion where he actually stands on the spectrum tends to be affected by where the discussers (dicussionists?) stand on aforesaid spectrum. His book on Cromwell used to be well thought of.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-85783428062299268072009-02-16T12:16:00.000+00:002009-02-16T12:16:00.000+00:00I was selling books on a stall with my fiancée a c...I was selling books on a stall with my fiancée a couple of years ago when somebody approached and asked whether we were mother and son. There were, subsequently, conflicting opinions as to how amusing this was.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>[Our age difference is fifteen months, and I'm the older one.]ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-72457152732980732472009-02-16T11:32:00.000+00:002009-02-16T11:32:00.000+00:00bat020Thanks for your comment; it is all very intr...bat020<BR/>Thanks for your comment; it is all very intriguing.<BR/>If Popper's slant on Hegel hadn't yet been published in 1940, and wasn't the reason for Evans' inclusion of his name, what was? <BR/>The catalogue, written by David Fraser Jenkins, suggests it was "presumably with reference to the philosopher's acceptance of war as a policy of vigorous nations". Would that be right, do you think? <BR/>btw one of Evans' drawings of/for the picture includes the "faintly visible", "probably BERNSTEIN" (so says Mr Jenkins) "referring to Eduard Bernstein's advocacy of a negotiated solution to Germany's territorial claims". Could anyone out there corroborate this by explaining where Bernstein stood on the political spectrum and thus whether he would have Evans' political sympathies.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Time to explain the in-joke, Jonathan B. <BR/>Some weeks back in a league match I sat down, at the board next to JB, to play a venerable seventy-seven year old (a much better player than I shall ever be, I should add) and was greeted with proverbially open arms and the comment that is was so nice "to play someone in my own age bracket". <BR/>Grey hair I might have, but he was still old enough to be my father.Martin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17616856982265044441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-56850280380417278242009-02-16T10:04:00.000+00:002009-02-16T10:04:00.000+00:00Ooh, ta, I didn't realise that essay was online!Ooh, ta, I didn't realise that essay was online!bat020https://www.blogger.com/profile/07101410408576442591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-14305744085696352762009-02-16T03:28:00.000+00:002009-02-16T03:28:00.000+00:00The article to which bat020 refers: http://www.mar...The article to which bat020 refers: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kaufmann.htmMorgan Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964054143509110236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-10323962795567303232009-02-15T18:32:00.000+00:002009-02-15T18:32:00.000+00:00I doubt if the Hegel reference works quite as you ...I doubt if the Hegel reference works quite as you think it does - the notion of Hegel as a "philosopher of totalitarianism" was cooked up by Karl Popper in the late 1940s and is very much part of the Cold War ideology that, as you note, comes to prominence a few years after this painting.<BR/><BR/>See Walter Kaufmann's 1951 essay "The Hegel Myth and its Method" for more details.bat020https://www.blogger.com/profile/07101410408576442591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-37770343552673625482009-02-14T09:24:00.000+00:002009-02-14T09:24:00.000+00:00I've always been impressed with Young Martin's kno...I've always been impressed with Young Martin's knowlege of art given his tender years.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.com