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beat the clock
In some measure, what John Lukacs is saying is that a good many people were wrong in their perceptions of what was occurring during World War II. But he is also saying more than that, something more interesting and more … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Szyk, Battle of Britain, Johan Huizinga, John Lukacs, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monica Osborne, Oliver Wallace Music, Oliver Wallace Walt Disney, Otto Dix, Owen Chadwick, Rudolph Herzog, Second World War, Sigmund Freud
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cold irons bound
From John Lukacs’s The Last European War, and old book from the 1970’s but still pertinent: “one of the most, if not the most successful economists of the twentieth century,” Lukacs says, “was Adolf Hitler. He did not believe in … Continue reading
life on parade: playing dress up
It was the Aryan myth. It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics, grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization….. Steven Heller: In fact, Hugo Boss was the designer back … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arno Breker, Arthur Szyk, Bryan Ferry, Filippo Marinetti, Frederic Spotts, Georges Bataille, James Young, Jean Genet, Joseph Thorak, Julius Paul Junghanns, Kerry Bolton, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Steven Heller, Susan Sontag
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