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Tag Archives: 1940’s
1942: Fog
Stefan Johansson: The Bridge in Fog (1942)
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1945: The Book of Alfred Kantor
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom HaShoah Alfred Kantor was 22 when he was sent to Theresienstadt, the ”model ghetto” 40 miles north of Prague that the Nazis had created for Czech Jews. He was then sent to Auschwitz and, later, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 1990's, 20th Century, Alfred Kantor, Art Spiegleman, Comics, Czechoslovakia, Drawing, Fathers, Holocaust, Judaism, Prisons, USA, WWII
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1973: Self-Translation
Born in Ireland, Samuel Beckett wrote almost exclusively in French after moving to Paris in 1939. He would then translate his novels and plays into English. He wrote the following sentence in his 1946 short story “Premier amour”: Personnellement je … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 1970's, 1980's, 20th Century, Books, Death, France, Ireland, John Minihan, Language, Photography, Portraits, Prose, Samuel Beckett, Translation, Writing
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1946: New Year’s
Horace Bristol: The New Moon, January 1, 1946 During the Saidai-ji Eyo Hadaka Matsuri [“Saidaiji Temple Naked Festival”] in Okayama, participants wear only a Japanese loincloth called a fundoshi as they compete to find one of two camphor-scented batons that … Continue reading
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1949: PH-129
Clyfford Still: PH-129 (1949)
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1941: Merry Christmas to All Loyal Comrades of the Victorious Soviet!
I couldn’t pass up this Christmas figurine of Santa Claus piloting a WWII-era Soviet Polikarpov I-16, complete with red star markings on the vertical stabilizer. Santa crashes while delivering presents in Siberia. (Actually a Polikarpov I-16 after an emergency landing … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Aviation, Christmas, Socialism & Communism, Soviet Union
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