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first world war: hysterical tremors
No doubt we shall never understand the First World War completely. The malaise, the something sinister and strange lying beneath the prosperity of a seemingly newly minted modern age. The lust for violence, the belief in death and the ominous … Continue reading
WWI: spirit of violence and hysteria
The malaise of the First World War. Even staunch humanists like Thomas Mann were caught up in the jingoistic fever, the pomp and ritual of nihilism. In 1914 he asked, “Is not war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?” … Continue reading
1914: cranking up the old hysteria
With a little patience, Germany might have had it all. But Wilhelm II was shrewd, treacherous, and hysterical, the archetype of the chronic bully whose mother had never loved him. He had a habitual style of discourse which in effect, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged George Bellows, John Hodgson Lobley, The Pogues, Thomas Mann, Von Moltke, Wilhelm II, Woodrow Wilson
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peggy
The Buddenbrook’s Syndrome according to Thomas Mann was the rags to riches to shirtsleeves scenario, where the drive to continue to accumulate great wealth would diminish through succeeding generations; a waning enthusiasm for grabbing the bull by the horns. By … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Courmes, Benjamin Guggenheim, Buddenbrooks syndrome, Caspar David Friedrich, Herbert Read Museum director, Hilla Rebay, Jacqueline Weld, leonora carrington, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Michele C. Cone, Peggy Guggenheim, Rudolf Bauer, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Mann
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paisan: real to reel
Impressive. The Italian neo-realists encapsulated the entire postwar delapidation, nihilism and then re-birth by refusing to dodge the issues by intoxicating themselves with pretty pipe dreams and resonant extravaganzas, avoiding the temptation to money making based on the Hollywood formula … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged David Lean, Frederico Fellini, Harriet White, Helen Levitt, klaus mann, luigi zampa, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Carne, Mario Bava, renato castellani, Riccardo Freda, roberto rossellini, sy wexler, Thomas Mann, vittorio de sica
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
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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grey melancholia: looking for mourners
“Where one comes from?” The work of art invested with the pathos of melencholia.Fake tears? The failure of the West as a humanizing endeavor? Dreams of resurrection decomposing. The numbing greyness of the decaying corpse, the failed experiment of regeneration … Continue reading
the good angels gulp and groan
In general, the notion that Heinrich Heine represented a “wound” became common currency in Germany after 1945, reflecting the German wound of the war and the country’s subsequent division; all interpretations have transformed themselves into a cultural problem and a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged felix born, Friedrich Schiller, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Herman Hesse, Honore Daumier, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Boerne, Martin Buber, Otto Dix, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann
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