Tag Archives: 1940’s

1945: The Book of Alfred Kantor

Posted on January 27, 2018 by corvusfugit

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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1973: Self-Translation

Posted on January 23, 2018 by corvusfugit

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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1946: New Year’s

Posted on January 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

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

Posted on December 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

Clyfford Still: PH-129 (1949)

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1941: Merry Christmas to All Loyal Comrades of the Victorious Soviet!

Posted on December 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

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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1944: Factory

Posted on December 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Frederick William Elwell: A Munitions Factory (1944)

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1904: Discarded Treasures

Posted on December 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Frederick Peto: Discarded Treasures (c. 1904) At some point, someone added the forged signature “W M”—for the popular trompe l’oeil painter William Harnett (1848-1892)—to this painting by John Frederic Peto. In the 1940’s, however, it was observed that paintings … Continue reading →

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1945: Hiroshima

Posted on November 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

Model of the atomic bomb impact on Hiroshima at the Peace Memorial Museum there.

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1940: Baling Hay

Posted on November 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Evelyn Mary Dunbar: Baling Hay (1940)

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1948: Kriophoros

Posted on November 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Craxton: Boy with Kid (1948); see this post.

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