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the jazz swingers
African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Arnold Schoenberg, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Django Reinhardt, german swing youth, itzhak perlman, Jean Paul Sartre, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Lindy Hop, Marcel Duchamp, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, stephane grappelli, Theodor Adorno
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fathers and sons: leaving traces
It was a school that combined crafts and fine arts, and conceptually followed a basic idea that mass-production was reconcilable with individual artistic spirit. Founded at Weimar in 1919, Bauhaus concepts of art were particularly influenced by Modernism. That is, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Clement Greenberg, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Stephane Mallarme, t.lux feininger, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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bloch prints
Ernest Bloch, a major composer of the twentieth-century , was called a romantic in an unromantic age. His music is known for its rich harmonic effects and emotional intensity. Born in Geneva in 1880, he emigrated in 1916 to the … Continue reading
a rite of spring: the modern mindset of primitive hysteria
Pagan rites. It demanded music that would be melodic but simple, spontaneous and immodest. More tribal rite that bourgeois concert. Stravinsky was completing his Firebird ballet in 1910 when he allegedly experienced a vision; a girl chosen to dance herself … Continue reading
putting a broken century together
Arnold Schoenberg is generally seen as the composer who did to music what Jackson Pollock was to do to art. Discard the old rules and take it into new realms, psychological and emotional planes hitherto unexplored, or unrepresented in that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Herz-Sommer, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, Franz Kafka, G. H. Schubert, Gustav Mahler, James Levine, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Robert Craft, Robert Schumann, Sigmund Freud, Wagner
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A note of dissonance: who cares if you listen
Electronic composition. Its an odd contradiction: Impenetrable, inaccessible, yet highly influential. A notoriety built partly on his personal view that reinforced a belief that contemporary music was for an elite cognoscenti. His supporters of his twelve tone theories, including Stephen … Continue reading
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Tagged Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Greg Sandow, James Levine, Laura Karpman, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Richard Feynman, Robert Hilferty, Robert P. Morgan, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Reich, Steve Soderberg, Theodor Adorno, Wiley Hitchcock
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VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse
Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” . Scholars consider that European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Egon Schiele, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, H.L. Mencken, Hermann Bahr, Hermann Kurzke, Mahler, Max Nordau, Nina Hagen, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Altenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, The Good Soldier Schweik, Thomas Mann
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OLD VIENNA OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Psychic Conflict, Anxiety and Hysteria
In a letter written in 1892 to Wilhelm Fliess, Freud made a remark, ” No neurasthenia or analogous neurosis exists without a disturbance in the sexual function.” “I am pretty well alone here in tackling the neuroses. They regard me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Alma Schindler, Angela Dilkey, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bruce Beresford, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, Franz Werfel, Friederich Austerlitz, George Beard, Gustav Klimdt, Joan Arehart-Treichel, Josef Breuer, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Klimdt, Linda Simon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Nordau, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Gay, Ray Monk, Robert S. Wistrich, Schoenberg, Sigmund Freud, Tom Lehrer, Wilhelm Fliess
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