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Tag Archives: 20th Century
1940: A Strange Way for an Animal
“The most common voluntary activity….is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination—to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, … Continue reading
1915: Impermanence
In 1915, Sigmund Freud published a short essay, “On Transience,” in which he addresses in a succinct and poetic way the ideas he had developed for his book Mourning and Melancholia (1917). For Freud, these two states—mourning and melancholia—are different … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Anton Hansch, Austria, Buddhism, Language, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Melancholy, Mental Health, Psychology, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, WWI
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1957: The Mayflower Arrives in New York City
In 1957, a replica of the Mayflower—the Mayflower II—was built in England based on reconstructed blueprints of the ship from an American museum. It set sail for the United States on April 20, 1957 and arrived in New York City … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 20th Century, Airships, Colonialism, New York City, Photography, Ships & Sailing
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1901: In the Fir Forest
Gustav Klimt: Fir Forest I (1901)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Austria, Gustav Klimt, Painting, Trees
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1963: A Tumultuous Day
Front and back of New York Times file photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. From a collection entitled “Unpublished Black History,” online here. Here is the story behind the King portrait: Consider the close-up of Dr. King above. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Journalism, Martin Luther King Jr., Photography
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1991: Won’t Get Off the Ground
Anselm Kiefer: Melancholia (1990-1991). Made of lead, glass, steel, and ash. Found here.
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Tagged 20th Century, Airplanes, Anselm Kiefer, Germany, Melancholy, Mental Health
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1921: Green Lightning on the Sea
Léon Spilliaert: L’éclair vert sur la mer [Green Lightning on the Sea] (1921) From a listing at Sotheby’s, although there titled L’eclair vert sur la mer—“the green eclair on the sea.”
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Belgium, Léon Spilliaert, Painting, Seascapes
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1943: Lena Horne Doesn’t Entertain Racism
From Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (2000): Al Duckett, a freelance journalist during World War II, recounts the following story about Lena Horne: “She had been sent to a camp in the south to entertain the troops. She was scheduled to … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Lena Horne, Women, WWII
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1912: Branches
Léon Spilliaert: Branches (1912)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Belgium, Léon Spilliaert, Painting, Trees
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1979: Eric Lanzetti Tells You What a Communist Is
In 1938, after a childhood in a West Virginia mining town and a bright college career at Brown and Oxford, Eric Lanzetti —radicalized by the revolutionary fight against fascism in Spain—became a communist organizer on the Lower East Side of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Activism, Books, Eric Lanzetti, Labor, Socialism & Communism, USA
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