All posts tagged "1920s"
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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...
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Art
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
July 8, 2021Stasis, 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
August 18, 2020Pasternak 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
August 16, 2020Chaos 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
May 15, 2020They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...