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Brecht: don’t look back
Somewhat shakily, tottering, revelation and the spiritual in art managed to survive intact after being banged around from the forces of the new objectivity.It is an absurd state of mind Brecht was latching onto to express alienation in a form … Continue reading
weill done: a weill deal
by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading
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wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise
A “house for building” is what Walter Gropius called the new school he founded in Germany in 1919. But the Bauhaus was much more than its modest name implies: it was a force that changed the shape of the modern … Continue reading
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Tagged anna freud, Clement Greenberg, georg muche, joost schmidt, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, Paul Klee, Thomas Mann, ulrike muller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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a second voice: whispers out of the dust
Ventriloquy and horror. Those strange little creatures always seem to be up to no good. Yes. They are a lot like us. But who is the master and who pulls the strings….. “For Ventriloquy, or speaking from the bottom of … Continue reading
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Tagged charlie mcCarthy, david strassman, Edgar Allan Poe, h.g. wells dead of night, james wan, Jean Baudrillard, joseph wright of derby, Kurt Weill, leigh whannell, maxwell frere, michael redgrave, robert boyle, Theodor Adorno, ventriloquy, William Gaddis
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like a rock: not quite white hope
“Men give meaning to their lives by realizing. . . creative values, by achieving tasks,” wrote Viktor Frankl. The will-to-meaning, a push to articulate the vague, foggy but lighted material of sustenance, was more basic and essential to Frankl than … Continue reading
on the road: serenading mickey
Lotte Lenya:The very next day, Joseph Goebbels banned any more performances of Der Silbersee on account of that ballad. A friend who had been arrested got word to Kurt that he must leave Berlin at once – his name was … Continue reading
feeling it in the neck
Lotte Lenya:Anti-Semitism always existed in Germany. I wasn’t aware of it at first – when you’re young, you aren’t so aware. But I wasn’t blind to it, either, especially after Mahagonny. One time, I was walking down the street with … Continue reading
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Tagged anti semitism, Bertolt Brecht, carl a. rossi, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Marianne Faithfull
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between empathy and illusion
…Brecht began to contrive an elaborate complex of stage techniques to produce the celebrated alienation effect, which was designed to stir audiences without exhausting them. He employed many varieties of the play within a play convention to keep the narration … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Donald Kuspit, edward kippers, georg baselitz, german neoexpressionism, Kurt Weill, martin esslin brecht, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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