All posts tagged "1920s"
History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
March 2, 2025They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
February 6, 2025Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Design
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
May 5, 2024Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
Historical Fiction
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
March 7, 2024Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Italy
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
March 4, 2024Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...