Title

Tilted Upwards

Authors

Tanu Sankalia, University of San FranciscoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

G.K. Chesterton’s short and surreal parable, “The Angry Street: A Bad Dream,” reminds us to not overlook things that surround us in everyday life, and to show them respect. Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings of cityscapes, inspired by San Francisco’s steep, building-lined streets, reestablish our links to the built environment with a vitality that sometimes the real—and the camera—lacks, but which drawing and painting bring to that which is represented. Chesterton and Thiebaud underscore how fictions are more evocative than truths. In this essay, accompanied by my own drawings of San Francisco’s steep streets, I suggest that fantastical fiction and art, in allegorical forms, can inspire us to reconnect with the material world around us—of things, and even streets—with renewed civility and respect.

Comments

First published in Streetnotes:

Sankalia, T. (2023). Tilted Upwards. Streetnotes, 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/S530160720 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gk5k117

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5070/S530160720

Recommended Citation

Sankalia, Tanu, "Tilted Upwards" (2023). Art + Architecture. 5.
https://repository.usfca.edu/art-architecture/5