scholarly journals Fractals of art and life: the Arensberg Salon as a Cubist space

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Joelle McCurdy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Decorative Arts ◽  
World War ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New York Dada ◽  
The World

Table of Contents Introduction: The Art Revolution in Walter's Room, Or Where Lou Held Court Part 1: Fractals of Art: Cubism and the Arensberg Collection Part 2: Fractals of Life: The Modern Exhibition Space from the Arensberg Salon to the MoMA Conclusion: From Cubist Wunderkammer to Open House "Hosted during the World War I and postwar era, from 1915-1921, the Arensberg salon served a generative function, welcoming bohemians and intellectuals from different nations and economic standings to convene and engage in conversation, chess, revelry, and collaborative projects. In addition to acting as the physical nucleus of New York Dada, the Arensberg residence, with its"super pictures" adorning the walls, served as an impressive domestic exhibition site incorporating art objects, decorative arts, and artefacts from disparate origins. Its hosts were Walter Arensberg, a poet,journalist, and literary scholar, and his wife Louise, a musician who came from equally wealthy stock. Together the Arensbergs used their sizeable inheritances to become influential collectors and patrons of the arts" -- Page 7.

scholarly journals Fractals of art and life: the Arensberg Salon as a Cubist space

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Joelle McCurdy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Decorative Arts ◽  
World War ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New York Dada ◽  
The World

Table of Contents Introduction: The Art Revolution in Walter's Room, Or Where Lou Held Court Part 1: Fractals of Art: Cubism and the Arensberg Collection Part 2: Fractals of Life: The Modern Exhibition Space from the Arensberg Salon to the MoMA Conclusion: From Cubist Wunderkammer to Open House "Hosted during the World War I and postwar era, from 1915-1921, the Arensberg salon served a generative function, welcoming bohemians and intellectuals from different nations and economic standings to convene and engage in conversation, chess, revelry, and collaborative projects. In addition to acting as the physical nucleus of New York Dada, the Arensberg residence, with its"super pictures" adorning the walls, served as an impressive domestic exhibition site incorporating art objects, decorative arts, and artefacts from disparate origins. Its hosts were Walter Arensberg, a poet,journalist, and literary scholar, and his wife Louise, a musician who came from equally wealthy stock. Together the Arensbergs used their sizeable inheritances to become influential collectors and patrons of the arts" -- Page 7.

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Transition From the White House Into Widowhood, 1945–1946

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Harold Ivan Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
World War ◽  
Unexpected Death ◽  
First Lady ◽  
White House ◽  
The World

Eleanor Roosevelt experienced demanding challenges following the unexpected death of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), the president of the United States, on April 12, 1945. That she was no longer first lady led to a series of secondary losses: the loss of status, the loss of staff, the loss of financial security, and, within a week, the loss of her primary residence, The White House. Her transition into “Widow Roosevelt” was complicated by her discovery that FDR had died in the presence of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, with whom he had had an affair during World War I. As a condition for staying married and having a political career, he agreed never to see Lucy again. The circumstances of FDR’s betrayal and death were kept secret for nearly two decades. A week after FDR’s death, Eleanor answered a question about her future by a New York Times reporter, with a tense, “The story is over.” However, Harry Truman, FDR’s successor, had other ideas and appointed her as a delegate to the United Nations. Over the next 17 years, Eleanor evolved into “First Lady of the World” and had a significant role in world affairs and American politics.

Freytag-Loringhoven, Baroness Elsa von (1874 –1927)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Knighton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
York City ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
World War ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
New York Dada ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Naked Body

Born Else Hildegard Plötz in the German Baltic seaport town of Swinmünde in 1874, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was an avant-garde poet, performer, visual artist, model, and autobiographer associated with the retrospectively named New York Dada movement. Arrested in Pittsburg for wearing men’s clothes and publicly smoking in 1910, the Baroness became an increasingly notorious figure in New York city as World War I took hold in Europe. Head shaved and lacquered in high vermilion, her often naked body decorated with the tin cans, ice cream spoons, and gilded vegetables that she collected from the city’s gutters or stole from its department stores, the Baroness both embodied and challenged the limits of established avant-garde gestures through a radical lived-Dada practice performed on and through her body. Well-suited to The Little Review’s tagline "Making no Compromise with the Public Taste," the Baroness was, as editor Jane Heap put it, "the only one living anywhere who dresses Dada, loves Dada, is Dada" (1922: 46).

Kubrick, Stanley (1928–1999)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad Oveisy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Stanley Kubrick ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
The World ◽  
Aesthetic Formalism ◽  
Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick (b. 26 July 1928, Bronx, New York, US; d. 7 March 1999, St Albans, England) was a key late-modernist American director renowned for his creative use of cinematic elements, a bold approach to the human subject’s existential dilemmas, and a controversial tendency towards grotesque subject matter. Even though the themes and cinematic styles vary greatly throughout Kubrick’s oeuvre, the human relationship with technology and government, the individual’s traumatic response to sexual and societal norms, and the mass conditions in the wake of war and violence capture the gist of his philosophical focus on the limitations of modernity. Kubrick’s films fall into the modernist tradition of aesthetic formalism. In the science fiction 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), he effectively uses the Eisensteinian techniques of rhythmic, tonal and intellectual montage to comment on technological teleology, human enlightenment, and the origin of violence. Kubrick established his early reputation with the noir The Killing (1956), and the World War I drama Paths of Glory (1957). The adaptations Lolita (1962) and A Clockwork Orange (1971) brought him worldwide success and acclaim. Later in his career, the psychological thriller The Shining (1987) and the Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket (1987) cemented his status as a fierce yet highly controversial critic of modern society, human nature, and the capitalistic machines of war and patriarchy.

American Business and the Approach of War 1935–1941

1953 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland N. Stromberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Business ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
World War ◽  
Progressive Decline ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World

The question whether business, or capitalism, has been a force for peace or for war has been one of some historical interest. Before 1914 there were few to challenge the thesis of the great liberal-capitalist ideologists—Comte, Spencer, Fiske, to name only outstanding specimens —that the triumph of free enterprise meant the end of war, or its progressive decline; that the businessman would make a world in which the arts of peace permanently displaced those of war. But after the World War there naturally arose schools which sought to establish that capitalism carried within itself the seeds of ferocious wars. The thinking of a disillusioned generation was powerfully influenced in this direction. The loosely drawn but vehement indictment of capitalism as partner of Mars can be read in such typical pieces of the ʼ30s as H. N. Brailsford's Property or Peace (New York: Covici, Friede, 1934) and C. H. Grattan's Preface to Chaos (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936). But these Marxist theories have been subjected to devastating criticism.

South Africa's World Position

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
G. G. Lawrie
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Recent History ◽  
World War ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Treaty Of Versailles ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Relations ◽  
Hans Morgenthau

THIS article attempts to relate some of the ideas put forward by Professor Hans Morgenthau in his Politics Amongst Nations (New York, 1949) to the world position of South Africa, and then essays some more general reflections on the Republic's external situation today.Such a study should normally begin with an historical introduction, but South Africa's recent history is, perhaps, well enough known for this to be dispensed with, and for my present purposes it will suffice to recall that South Africa was recognised as a sovereign state after World War I, when she was a separate signatory of the Treaty of Versailles and of the League Covenant. There were, of course, constitutional developments after that which led first to the weakening and then to the breaking of the Commonwealth tie, but this did not affect South Africa's formal relations with foreign states. Her relationship with Britain was of great but decreasing importance; but from the standpoint of other powers this importance was political rather than constitutional, for South Africa could be influenced through the British connexion much as Panama can be influenced through the U.S.A.1

scholarly journals Generational cycles and changes in time and space

2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Business Climate ◽  
World War ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
Generation Cycle ◽  
Quantitative Indicators

The cyclical character of definite processes observed under both Polish and American conditions in fact emerges as of a universal nature, finding its analogies throughout the world, though first and foremost within the European cultural circle. It is also possible to speak of its far reaching synchronicity, encompassing change on both local and global scales. This is witnessed by successive culminations of cycles with the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, the revolutionary surges of the 1830s and 1840s, the events of the 1860s and 1870s, the turbulences and wars of the early 20th century (notably World War I), then World War II, the great transformations of the 1980s, and the recently observed increase in political tension in various parts of the world (e.g. the Middle East, Ukraine, etc.). In the economic sphere the symptoms are shifts in the business climate, which can even be calculated by reference to quantitative indicators. Then, in the sphere of culture, it is possible to denote successive periods in literature and the arts. In the political sphere in turn, events that shape the state or territorial order are to be observed readily. The present article thus seeks to propose the existence of a universal and synchronous 30-40 years long generation cycle, which manifests itself in real symptoms in the world of politics, and for instance in the cyclicity seen to characterise intensity of change on the political map of Europe.

scholarly journals Greatest show on Earth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hàn Vi Phi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
World War ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
To Come ◽  
The U.S

Ours arrived under mysterious circumstances in Wuhan, China sometime in the last quarter of 2019. In the memorable words of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Covid-19 virus then “got on a plane” and became a super-spreading global pandemic in a matter of months. The human toll is devastating — over 80 million infected and over 1.7 million deaths as I write this. Over a century ago and during World War I no less, the world witnessed the devastating “Spanish flu” pandemic, which according to the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention infected 500 million people and killed over 50 million, with an estimated 20 million in Asia alone, although precise numbers are hard to come by. Pandemics are named pandemics because their human toll is on a global scale and devastating.

scholarly journals Has Asia Lost It?: Dynamic Past, Turbulent Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hàn Vi Phi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
World War ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
To Come ◽  
The U.S

Ours arrived under mysterious circumstances in Wuhan, China sometime in the last quarter of 2019. In the memorable words of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Covid-19 virus then “got on a plane” and became a super-spreading global pandemic in a matter of months. The human toll is devastating — over 80 million infected and over 1.7 million deaths as I write this. Over a century ago and during World War I no less, the world witnessed the devastating “Spanish flu” pandemic, which according to the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention infected 500 million people and killed over 50 million, with an estimated 20 million in Asia alone, although precise numbers are hard to come by. Pandemics are named pandemics because their human toll is on a global scale and devastating.

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