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...left, and together constitute a movement we label German Expressionism. But this label has generated a parasitic stereotype of artistic self-indulgence that sucks the blood of particular meaning from each artist's work. Part of the problem is that the history of Expressionism has all been written in hindsight. Even these few statements left by the artists about their art were, for the most part, made after the cataclysm of World War I. Those of the first generation who wrote of their previous work saw it as though it were an image shattered--carefully restored...
Meidner's work may well have seemed prophetic in hindsight. After the war, his images captured the German experience all too effectively. His work seemed to presage the new preoccupation with social criticism. Grosz, for example, never could have believed, as Kirchner did, that "an artist's drawings will never be superfluous since they have that which is the essence of art--beauty beyond purpose or morality." Drawings such as Grosz's Christ with a Gas Mask (1928), or The Gratitude of the Fatherland (1920) are both purposeful and moralistic. Grosz even used the codified morality of Christian iconography...
...this slow development from the adolescent's misconception to his understanding of the old man, added to the hindsight of the grown-up narrator, that makes the characters come alive. In his leisurely, rambling pace, Taylor gives the reader a superb description of the Old South...
...Most of us were members of the party then because the Communists were the only organized radical outfit," Nelson says. With the luxury of hindsight, it is easy to introduce questions about such topics as the excesses of Stalinism, but when reviewing the total of Nelson's judgments, he merely says, "Who is going to argue who is perfectly right...
...same time, in light of the Mass Hall takeover, Bok regrets not having established ACSR promptly--before the development of the Gulf Oil protests. "To have had those procedures implemented promptly before the problem arose would have been a good thing," Bok says. "Of course, hindsight is always easy. In the fall, there was no problem, and it didn't appear that moving on that ACSR deliberately would matter. In retrospect, it did, and to that extent I suppose I have some regrets...