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SOCIAL CLASS THEORY: Breaking Through the Skin of Human Culture

August Sander photographed German citizens from all classes and walks of life. Rich, poor, men, women, revolutionaries, artists, tramps, professionals, children, laborers, Communists, Social Democrats, Anglo Saxons, Gypsies,Nazis and Negroes stood or sat squarely in front of his camera, fully … Continue reading

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Last One To Leave Turns Out The Lights

A culture of profound boredom.Or a boredom from a lack of profound culture? Critiques of democratic market economies such as that of Theodor Adorno (1903-69), argued that capitalism plied and spoon fed people with the products of a ‘culture industry’, … Continue reading

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Not a Sugar Dada's Girl

Hannah Höch( 1889-1978) is best known as one of the originators of the medium of photomontage, and the only female member of the Berlin Dada group, an artistic grouping which protested the unprecedented destruction of World War I by putting … Continue reading

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Aesthetics of Nihilism: Death as a ''Ready Made''

The general chaos was captured in the driving art movement in Germany in the years between the World Wars by German Expressionism. But once Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party began their ascent into power, culminating in 1933 with the … Continue reading

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