Word: ideas
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...moving record of Europe's reaffirmation of itself against terrible odds. The totalitarian regimes of the '30s-Nazism in Germany and Central Europe, Fascism in Italy, Stalinism in the Soviet Union-had wiped entire countries off the map of modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past by war and ideology. Whole tracts of culture-German Romanticism; classical sculpture, with its image of the ideal, prosperous body-had been laid waste...
...whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
...going through its own change of life. "When I started out in the '70s, my work was considered so strange, I used to make a living doing tattoos," says Marten. "The field is much more creative now." Kunz adds that taking a drawing from an outline of an idea to publishable art in two days (the standard turnaround time for newsweeklies) has its own peculiar rewards. "I like it best," she says, "when it's over." We know how that feels...
...Koernke's background, however, suggests not a sharp turn but a straight line. From his teens, Koernke (who declined to be interviewed for this story) has exhibited a fascination with guns and guerrilla warfare, an intense dislike of authority, a grandiose vision of himself with an attraction to the idea of martyrdom, and, as one ally puts it, the ability to "talk until most people have turned to sand." If anything, Koernke appears to have become increasingly himself. That mix of characteristics did not make him popular early on. But eventually he located an America, or part of an America...
...humanity capable of such an undertaking?Is it not a hopelessly utopian idea? Haven't we solost control of our destiny that we are condemnedto gradual extinction in ever harsher high-techclashes between cultures, because of our fatalinability to to co-operate in the face ofimpending catastrophes, be they ecological, socialor demographic, or of dangers generated by thestate of our civilization as such...