Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jones' recent release, Q's Jook Joint, is a mythological journey into backwoods club houses of rural America in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s...
...wash. Although the roots of Buchananism as a political philosophy are varied--from Theodore Roosevelt to Catholic theology to the America First movement of the 1930s--the roots of Buchananism as a popular phenomenon lie much closer to home. Republican politicians who are looking for someone to blame for this spoiler in their midst should look in the mirror. Buchanan's populist demagoguery, his fatuous targeting of so-called elites, his pandering to white middle-class self-pity, his scapegoating of minority and outsider groups--all these are familiar themes of Republican rhetoric of recent years...
Harvard's enormous collection allows possible Assistant Curator Emilie Norris' historiographical approach. She has organized the pieces around a modest controversy, Feininger's nationality, which raged, momentarily, in the early 1930s when Feininger was living in Germany. Curators had a hard time classifying Feininger because though he moved to Germany when he was 16, he was born and raised in New York. Since he came to prominence as a German, he never really lost that identity. But when Museum of Modern Art curator Alfred Barr included Feininger in a 1929-30 exhibit on American artists, he ran into "outspoken hostility...
...early 19th century's Know-Nothings, with their hatred and fear of Catholics and immigrants, anchored a lineage that ran through the Ku Klux Klan to Michigan's Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, with his anti-Semitic radio broadcasts and sympathetic sermonettes about Hitler and Mussolini. Pat Buchanan wants Americans to recover their sense of shame about things like sex and pornography. But he is worse than oblivious to the political sewage. It is the medium he has chosen to swim...
Abstract painting lapsed into mannerism in Europe by the late 1930s, and was revived in America by artists who discarded its utopian fantasies and replaced them with ideas related to epic space, primitive ritual, spontaneous gesture and the sublime. But who today still buys the rhetoric that surrounded Abstract Expressionism--all that oracular guff about existential confrontation, tragedy, timelessness and how we're locking horns with Michelangelo...