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autoneurotic · 2 years
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every day i think about the throne of the third heaven of the nations’ millennium general assembly and every day i go off the rails insane
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maythray · 11 months
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found it. this is what this album is like to listen to
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icarus-suraki · 7 months
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No, you know what? While I'm all fired up about modern art and outsider art, let me introduce you to the works of James Hampton.
Pictured above is his monumental Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
With scant education and no formal art education, James Hampton made these pieces out of his intense religious fervor and his own desire to create:
In 1950, Hampton rented a garage on 7th street in northwest Washington [DC]. Over the next 14 years, Hampton built a complex work of religious art inside the garage with various scavenged materials such as aluminum and gold foil, old furniture, pieces of cardboard, light bulbs, jelly jars, shards of mirror and desk blotters held together with tacks, glue, pins and tape. The complete work consists of 180 objects, many of them inscribed with quotes from the Book of Revelation. The centerpiece of the exhibit is a throne, seven feet tall, built on the foundation of an old maroon-cushioned armchair with the words "Fear Not" at its crest. The throne is flanked by dozens of altars, crowns, lecterns, tablets and winged pulpits. Wall plaques on the left bear the name of apostles and those on the right list various biblical patriarchs and prophets such as Abraham and Ezekiel. The text The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly was written on the objects in Hampton's handwriting.
He constructed all his pieces from materials he found or scavenged himself, "such as aluminum and gold foil, old furniture, pieces of cardboard, light bulbs, jelly jars, shards of mirror and desk blotters held together with tacks, glue, pins and tape."
It's not clear if Hampton himself regarded himself as an artist, a visionary, a prophet, or none of the above. His work, however, is regarded as art in the same way that Michelangelo's Pieta is regarded as art: art of a religious subject or concept.
He also "kept a 108-page loose-leaf notebook titled St James: The Book of the 7 Dispensation. Most of the text was written in an unknown script that remains undeciphered. ... Some of the text was accompanied by notes in English in Hampton's handwriting. In the notebook, Hampton referred to himself as St. James with the title 'Director, Special Projects for the State of Eternity' and ended each page with the word 'Revelation'."
The art was not discovered until after Hampton's death in 1964, when the owner of the garage, Meyer Wertlieb, came to find out why the rent had not been paid. He knew that Hampton had been building something in the garage. When he opened the door, he found a room filled with the artwork. Hampton had kept his project secret from most of his friends and family. His relatives first heard about it when his sister came to claim his body. When Hampton's sister refused to take the artwork, the landlord placed an advertisement in local newspapers. Ed Kelly, a sculptor, answered the advertisement and was so astounded by the exhibit, he contacted art collector Alice Denney. Denney brought art dealers Leo Castelli and Ivan Karp, and artist Robert Rauschenberg, to see the exhibit in the garage. Harry Lowe, the assistant director of the Smithsonian Art Museum, told the Washington Post that walking into the garage "was like opening Tut's tomb."
His work is now on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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utopians · 2 hours
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new jacob geller vid kicks ass... I wonder if he knows about the throne of the third heaven of the nations' millennium general assembly I feel like he would enjoy it
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uptownbeancan · 14 days
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I was going to make an angry post about image generators but how about instead we meditate for a moment on this jpeg of The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
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need to go there
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nobrashfestivity · 2 years
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James Hampton, Crown from The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, ca. 1950-1964, gold and silver aluminum foil, cardboard, found objects, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Margaret Kelley McHugh, Nancy Kelley Schneider and William H. Kelley, 2001.67.2
Little is known about James Hampton, despite the grandeur of his self-chosen title, ​“Director, Special Projects for the State of Eternity.” He was born in 1909 in Elloree, South Carolina, a small community of predominantly African-American sharecroppers and tenant farmers. His father, a gospel singer and self-ordained Baptist minister, left his wife and four children to pursue his itinerant calling.
In 1928, when he was nineteen, Hampton moved to Washington, D.C., to live with an older brother. Drafted into the Army in 1942, he served with a segregated unit that maintained airstrips in Saipan and Guam during World War II. Hampton returned to Washington in 1945, and began working a year later as a janitor for the General Services Administration until his death in 1964. Although he expressed interest in finding ​“a holy woman,” to assist with his life’s work he never married and had few close friends.
Hampton was raised as a fundamentalist Baptist, but he disliked the concept of a denominational God and attended a variety of the city’s churches. As early as 1931, Hampton believed that he began receiving visions from God, and by 1945 it appears he had made one small, shrine-like object while stationed on Guam. This piece became part of his larger work, and is now placed in front of the center pulpit.
His work on The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly probably began in earnest around 1950, when he rented a garage in his northwest Washington neighborhood, which was also the city’s center of African-American business, religious, and night life.
Although a humble man, Hampton often referred to himself as ​“St. James.” He may have considered himself a prophet like John, the author of The Book of Revelation, the biblical writing that inspired Hampton’s belief in the Second Coming of Christ and his desire to build The Throne as a monument to the return of Christ to earth.
Hampton worked almost every day on his project, often starting his work at midnight after completing his janitorial duties. He continued his efforts until he died in 1964. The Throne was discovered and brought to the public’s attention after his death. It is most likely Hampton’s monument to his faith was never completely finished.
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
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tgirlsaintlawrence · 1 year
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Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation’s Millennium General Assembly - James Hampton
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bidaubadeadieu · 1 year
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, James Hampton ca. 1960
As seen at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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hasufin · 3 months
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Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, outsider art by James Hampton
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dyingforbadmusic · 1 year
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James Hampton - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly
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childhoodgrave · 2 years
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for my birth day we all have to listen to the throne of the third heaven of the nations millennium general assembly ok
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maythray · 3 months
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okay im done. goodnight <3
listen to this album for me though
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oatbugs · 2 months
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what are some of your favorite albums?
aa i think i mostly listen to playlists of individual songs and not albums, but i had to choose maybe An Awesome wave - alt j or The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly - Le Loup at the moment :) thank u !
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lmc2024 · 3 months
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Visual sketchbook #1
James Hampton c 1950-1964 Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. Gold and silver aluminum foil, colored Kraft paper, plastic sheets over wood, paperboard and glass. 180 pieces; 10’6” x 27’ x 14’6”.
I learned that James Hampton was drafted into World War two.
He worked as a janitor in a federal building at night.
In 1950 he rented a carriage house just for The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly.
There are discarded pieces of different furniture, vases, and lightbulbs in the artwork.
The artwork was made during the civil rights movement in Washington D.C.
When I first saw The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, I thought it was just weird artwork made of cardboard and tin foil. Now I see it is made of things no one else wanted and that James found beauty in. This artwork shows James Hampton interpretation of the Holy bible and his love for it. Seeing this artwork, I just want to sit on the throne to see how it feels like sitting on a throne.
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2. This is a poster of the starry night by Vincent Van Gogh that I bought at a Van Gogh exabit. I know that the original painting was made with oil paint, but the poster was made with a printer most likely. This is my favorite painting of Van Gogh. I love all of the colors and how abstract it looks. I know Van Gogh painted this when he was in an institution. He painted what he saw outside of his window that had bars over it. He looked passed the bars to see the beauty on the outside.
3. I am a 22, almost 23, year old Hispanic female from Florida. I love to read, draw, paint, build and bake. For the past 4 years I have been working at a preschool. I used to work with the one-year-olds but now I work with the twos.
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I feel like this picture represents the real me. This is me being silly ole me. Normally I do not smile in pictures, but I felt goofy this day.
(Side note when this college class is over, I'm deleting all this because I am pretty shy. Enjoy while its up.)
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damasquedman · 5 months
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Quickly Aging Here
Denis Johnson
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nothing to drink in
the refrigerator but juice from   
the pickles come back
long dead, or thin
catsup. i feel i am old
now, though surely i
am young enough? i feel that i have had   
winters, too many heaped cold
and dry as reptiles into my slack skin.   
i am not the kind to win
and win.
no i am not that kind, i can hear
my wife yelling, “goddamnit, quit   
running over,” talking to
the stove, yelling, “i
mean it, just stop,” and i am old and
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i wonder about everything: birds
clamber south, your car
kaputs in a blazing, dusty
nowhere, things happen, and constantly you
wish for your slight home, for
your wife’s rusted
voice slamming around the kitchen. so few
of us wonder why
we crowded, as strange,
monstrous bodies, blindly into one   
another till the bed
choked, and our range
of impossible maneuvers was gone,
but isn’t it because by dissolving like so   
much dust into the sheets we are crowding
south, into the kitchen, into   
nowhere?
Denis Johnson, “Quickly Aging Here” from The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New. Copyright © 1995 by Denis Johnson
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razorpilled · 5 months
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the throne of the third heaven of the nations millennium general assembly. the band's name is "le loup" which means "the wolf" in french. there are songs called "(howl)" and "we are gods! we are wolves!" recurring mentions of howling and wolves and storms and other wild things in the lyrics throughout the album. it's the razor album to me
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