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Tag Archives: Theory
1917: Meet the New Boss
“A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size painting of the 1917 October Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. The image was ‘hidden’ for the last 90 years beneath water-soluble paint on the back of … Continue reading
1944: Model City
The decorative industrial management buildings and exhibition centers in authoritarian countries are much the same as anywhere else. The huge gleaming towers that shoot up everywhere are outward signs of the ingenious planning of international concerns, toward which the unleashed … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Architecture, Capitalism, Cities, Los Angeles, Max Horkheimer, Miniatures, Theodor Adorno, Theory, Urban Planning
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1965: Struggling from Darkness
If we approach the novel with one eye on the natural sciences today, we may say that it assembles its structure from…models of existence or reality in a manner that will hopefully be more true and more real than the … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Books, Géza Ottlik, Hungary, Novels, Prose, Theory
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