Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard German Society...
...Nevertheless, the society made its presence felt on campus. John Reed members twice played host to the well-known German Communist Gerhard Eisler. On both occasions, capacity crowds turned out to hear Eisler speak...
Nevertheless, the society made its presencefelt on campus. John Reed members twice playedhost to the well-known German Communist GerhardEisler. On both occasions, capacity crowds turnedout to hear Eisler speak...
...robust quality of his singing is helping lay to rest a silly but persistent cliche: that real men don't sing alto. For years countertenors were kidded about the presumed implications of their sky-high voices. (Deller is said to have been confronted backstage once by a German fan who asked, "You are eunuch, yes?" to which the singer allegedly replied, "I think perhaps you mean unique, madam.") And in the '50s and '60s, when rumors of homosexuality could still kill a career, many went out of their way to stress their manliness. But times have changed, and Daniels makes...
...contrast between Kiefer and Polke couldn't be sharper, of course. Kiefer (whose drawings were recently shown at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art) is oratorical, Wagnerian; he is a flat-out mythomane, dedicated to the Sublime, the Enormous and the Ultra-German; a marvelous artist at his best and at his worst a Black Forest ham. Polke is thinner, weirder and more elusive. His work--whose basic nature developed during the period covered by this show, from 1963 to 1974--is a hard-to-read image haze formed by the overlay of Pop art on Germany...