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Degler's survey of dissent in the nineteenth-century South relentlessly portrays native white Southerners who opposed slavery, supported the Union, became Republicans during Reconstruction, rejected the Democratic Party in the 1880s and joined the Populists in the 1890s. He makes his case for a peculiar but ongoing tradition of efforts to change the South from within, linking the dissenters across the chasm of war and emancipation. (For example, Degler ties the Southern populists more to the scalawags of the 1870s than to their contemporaries, the rebellious populist farmers in Kansas or South Dakota.) Degler's 'other Southerners' people...
Fogg Museum. Nineteenth Century Portraiture opened as scheduled last week, to some surprise. Very satisfying to the voyeurs in the area: General Burnside really did have sideburns, and Carrie Nation left out her false teeth. The students who put the show together have added an excellent commentary on the early photographic processes exhibited here. Down the hall is Color In Art, a technical explanation of a Professor-Emeritus' theories on the subject. An exhibit at the Museum of Science compliments it. But be forewarned: they cost money, and the Fogg is free...
...about quests and crones and wish-fulfillment and why little girls love their dogs. A couple of years ago, someone came up with a much better explanation--The Wizard of Oz, he proved, was actually the best musical to come out of the Free Silver movement of the late nineteenth century...
...high silk hat topped by a flower, his eyes and arched eyebrows darkened, his mouth a red gash, Bip is "the silent witness of the lives of men, struggling against one handicap or another, with joys and sorrows as their daily companions." Born out of the tradition of the nineteenth century which created Pierrot during the French Revolution, Bip is the nostalgic dreamer, arousing pity and empathy as he is confronted by each successive disaster, yet spurred on again and again by the enlightening force of hope. Forever chasing some distant ideal, following some foolish dream, Bip unabashedly exposes yearnings...
THAT ELEMENT is the presence of the white man. Nineteenth century pioneers weren't attracted to the Aleutian islands, but the Alaskan gold rush made the land of the Indian tribes into a white-man's thoroughfare. The Tlingit and Athabaskan art comes to have European influences that disturb the fusion of beauty and purpose that makes the art of the Eskimos so moving...