All posts tagged "1920s"
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Art
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
December 26, 2022Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
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Classics
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 22, 2022Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 20, 2022Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
July 3, 2022They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 12, 2022Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...