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Tag Archives: 1930’s
1932: Sunset
Charles Ernest Butler: Sunset at Low Tide, Westcliff on Sea (1932)
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1931: Seascape
Patrick von Kalckreuth: Seascape The painting is undated. Von Kalckreuth (1892–1970) was born Patrick Dunbar, but changed his name after his father died and his mother married Richard von Kalckreuth in 1931. The signature on the panting thus indicates a … Continue reading
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1935: Found Photo
I took a guess on the date.
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1936: Gold Were His Limbs where He Was Bird
In 1921, the Istituto nazionale dantesco in Milan commissioned a lavish edition of the Divine Comedy to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death; the edition was to include an original color plate for each of the 100 canti of … Continue reading
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1939: The History of Spitting
The pioneering sociologist Norbert Elias published The Civilizing Process in 1939 with the aim of tracing how Europeans came to imagine what it meant to be “civilized.” In the book, he argues that increasing interdependence in society—in which difference social … Continue reading
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1930: Atlas
Boris Ignatovich: At the Hermitage, 1930
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1936: The Red Flag
Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (1936)
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