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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhibit was guest curated by Ricky Jay, a magician and author of the books Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women and Cards as Weapons...

Author: By Benjamin G. Delbanco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pusey Magic Display Opens | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...exhibit--which displays playbills, advertisements and other magic memorabilia--was assembled by the Harvard Theatre Collection...

Author: By Benjamin G. Delbanco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pusey Magic Display Opens | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...focal point of the exhibit is a section devoted to Alexander Herrmann, who was considered the premier magician of the 19th century...

Author: By Benjamin G. Delbanco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pusey Magic Display Opens | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...above pieces are actually among the least political of the exhibition. A number of photo montages, primarily by John Heartfield and El Lissitzky, take up Soviet propaganda, Hitler and Weimar politics with a style that anticipates, but far from outshines, contemporary artists like Barbara Kruger. Their montages are busy, uninviting, but important. Heartfield's One must have a special disposition toward suicide. It illustrates the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg by the Freikorps--an event which put an end to any realistic hopes for a Communist revolution in the Weimar Republic. Heartfield lays Liebknecht's mordant head among...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WEIMAR at the BUSCH-REISINGER | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...Busch-Reisinger exhibition does an adequate job of presenting the complexity of Weimar visual culture. There are no flagship pieces; not one oil painting graces the show (where is Christian Schad?). Copious books have been placed in the hallway outside the exhibit to bolster the scanty offerings. There is a characteristic Georg Grosz sketch of men and women walking about, greedy and mean, but it feels like little more than a twig compared to the corpus of Grosz's works. The same is true of the representation given of Beckmann, Feiniger, Albers, Schlemmer and other Weimar stars. The only artist...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WEIMAR at the BUSCH-REISINGER | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

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