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VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | 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 | Leave a comment

Southern Discomfort

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Dave

Throw Buster from the train.Faster than a speeding locomotive,the Superman of comedy knew the eccentric side of Southern living. Carson McCullers ”The Heart is A Lonely Hunter ” and Buster Keaton’s film , ”The General’ ( 1927 ),a newly released … Continue reading →