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...from the title Bertolt Brecht gave one of his poems: "700 Intellectuals Pray to an Oil Tank." It was a pessimistic movement. Nobody involved with Neue Sachlichkeit believed in the machine-utopias that were an article of faith among the romantics at the Bauhaus. When an artist like Carl Grossberg (1894-1940) painted factory installations, he gave them a deserted, haunting quality, as though some German De Chirico had been set loose in the Ruhr. De Chirico was the main prototype for the fantastic images of this wing of the German avantgarde; there was, for instance, a ready connection...
Probably related to this lecture in some perverse sense is a Surgical Research Conference seminar Monday, Jan. 16 on "Hazards in the Use of PEEP." You can get a peep at PEEP in Room A of the Grossberg Building at Beth Israel Hospital at a quarter of five that last day of reading period...