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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cranks... Villains... ...And Unsung Heroes | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...lamps of Europe were giving way to electric streetlights. That meant a new kind of nighttime, full of sexy pinpoints in the fog, 20th century floodlights over 19th century cobblestones, popguns of brightness in dark places that told dirty jokes about the naked city. As photographers elsewhere were doing--Josef Sudek in Prague, Bill Brandt in London--Brassai claimed as his territory the nocturnal city that camera and film technology was just then arriving at the means to capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Brassai: The Night Watchman | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...born a few days after Hitler marched into Poland, and as a boy I absorbed, by moral osmosis and overheard conversation, some of the lessons of the time--for example, lessons taught by Auschwitz and Josef Mengele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time For The Ice Floe, Pop | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...abstract beauty, Weimar visual cultural does...what? It is political, but it is more than simple propaganda--Heartfield and Georg Grosz each have their Hitler caricatures, but the meat of Weimar thought is elsewhere. Technology is everywhere: in the medium of photography, in Bauhaus design, in the mannequins of Josef Albers and Oskar Schlemmer, in the pipes and puppets in the portraiture section. The noisy whirligig of modern technology is both embraced in dada photo-montages of basketball-headed humanoids and controlled through the neat, organized designs of Herbert Bayer's movie house and exhibition pavilion, diagrams simultaneously full...

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

Hamelin is a throwback to golden age piano virtuosos--wizards like Ignaz Friedman, Josef Hofmann and Leopold Godowsky--whose keyboard pyrotechnics lit up concert halls during the first 40 years of this century. He is fascinated by the piano's expressive range, its ability to produce almost orchestral varieties of sounds and colors, seemingly bound only by the performer's own limitations. These varied works--by Rachmaninoff, Alkan, Busoni, Godowsky and others--are wickedly difficult, yet Hamelin plays them, often at dazzling speeds, with color, power, a long line and unfailing elan. He also performs three of his own witty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Composer-Pianists: Marc-Andre Hamelin | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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