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After war officially broke out in Germany, Marc joined the army, filled with idealistic hopes that a war could transform society, could liberate it from the trappings of bourgeois culture. Only three years after painting "The Stables" and "The Poor Country of Tyrol," he was killed in action, dying embittered...
The weakest parts of the play occur when the Son lashes out in stock criticism of bourgeois society. When he flees to New York after the accident, he exults over his poverty and freedom in terms a college sophomore might use. Those moments do not do justice to the complexity...
Nader's politics have changed over the years in a different way. In his early days, he disappointed many admirers by refusing to take an active stance against the Vietnam War for fear of reducing his effectiveness as a consumer advocate. In fact, he was thought of as somewhat apolitical...
Through Lian's bright eyes, China during the Cultural Revolution often seems more deranged than consciously brutal. To mention food, drink or sex is to invite charges of bourgeois decadence. Students are required to master the denunciation article, a form Lian describes as "a slanging match between a couple of...
No question, Chardin was one of the greatest artists who ever picked up a brush--and all the greater for painting without the attributes of greatness. Eighteenth century France was a fine incubator for pictorial grandeur, as in the history pieces of Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Its sexual rhetoric--think of...