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Just as the architects' and designers' pioneering zeal seemed to give out, the enfants terribles Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka (see following story) had their first shows of paintings in Vienna. Their intense, expressionist works did not flirt, like Klimt's gilded sultanic pictures, with bourgeois prettiness and what the...
Some artists have a flair for creating maestrohood from a succession of scandals; Kokoschka was one. Almost from the moment he left art school he assumed center stage in the Viennese avant-garde, enacting its fixations on love and death, abandonment and deviancy. Painting apart, he worked hard to earn...
The absence of a stage, the emphasis on audience contact, and the performers' bare feet and plain dress are part of an implied attack on the tradition of bourgeois realism and its "Western association. Themes of capitalist imperialism, the superpowers' hegemony over East Asia during WWII, Cold War ideology, and...
Or as Gay rather weightily puts it, "There was in fact one essential principle on which cynics, metaphysicians, researchers, and ordinary bourgeois could cheerfully unite: true love is the conjunction of concupiscence with affection." This seems a rather obvious thesis to attract all the firepower that Gay devotes to it...
Still, opposition parties are entitled to hold rallies, post billboards along the highways and publish newsletters, although they are subjected to government censorship. Ironically, the Sandinistas suffer some of the most heated criticism from the leftist parties. Eli Altamirano, president of the Nicaraguan Communist Party, charges, "The Sandinistas are ideologically...