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...World War II, the thought that its horror was too monstrous to write about in the conventional fictional forms slipped into the conversations of literary intellectuals. Fiction implies maneuver - heroic activity, moral preachment, even softening sentiment, all of which gestures seem trivial and inappropriate in the context of unprecedented, and in some sense inexplicable, evil. Putting the point simply, it is impossible to think of a novel, play or film that conveys the full effect of the Nazi genocide. The works that abide - Anne Frank's diary, Primo Levi's recollections of the death camps, Schindler's List...
...stare. (This was such a new-fangled notion that some department stores had to hire professional “window gazers” to help the trend catch on.) Bu ilding on these earlier techniques of layout and design, department store windows of the 50s and 60s were the context in which art and fashion literally merged. Window dressers began to use actual works of art from emerging artists as the background to their displays. Fun fact: it was in show windows, not art museums, that artists such as Warhol and Jasper Johns first got the opportunity to present their...
...print version of the lexicon would have been “a regurgitation in alphabetical order” of Rowling’s world, Cendali said, as she explained the author’s suit in the context of other intellectual property rulings...
...pieces,” she explained. “The walls of pieces don’t have to be that thick. I used a ‘pull and pinch’ method.” Professor Blier then focused on Odundo’s work in the context of African art’s importance to the Western world. “To me, one of the reasons I love African art is because the primacy of sculpture,” she said. “In [Odundo’s] works as well, it is almost...
...Whether or not the participants identify themselves as feminist is less important than their willingness to speed-date in a feminist context,” she said...