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...shards of the civilization left behind and the pitiful results of past human choices. In the preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg claims that he "finds the joy of life in its violent and cruel struggles," and Miss Julie portrays a struggle in perhaps the most violent tradition of the 1880s: the heartless struggle between the classes...
Schechter's speech, entitled "Fenced In: The Legacy of the Cattle Kingdom in America," follows the idea of his own thesis and traces the rise and fall of huge cattle ranches in the 1880s...
...Most of us live in a comfortable duality with the mind/matter problem. We're basically rationalists, believing that the physical world and the images concocted by our subconscious mind are distinct and separate realities. Over the past hundred or so years, from the table-rapping seances of the 1880s to the playing of Mozart to plants in the 1960s to the spoon-bending ESP tricks of the '70s, we've come to consider that most paranormal interactions between these realms are either hoaxes or explainable by known physical factors. And yet we continue to play mind games with the physical...
Marvels have been created out of a sense of inferiority, as the history of American museums proves. But from the 1880s to the late 1950s, American museums--the Whitney itself being the lone exception--were less interested in fostering American artists than in acquiring, at warp speed, the cultural treasures of Europe. This applied to modernism as well as to the Renaissance, and it wouldn't change until the late '50s, when Abstract Expressionism began to be elevated into the Triumph of American Painting. Earlier 20th century American art took much longer to be appreciated by Americans (or anyone else...
Though the Annex was considered a tentative experiment when it was first founded, in the 1880s Agassiz pushed for a formal relationship with Harvard...