Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preach reform. He advocates awareness, and he is good at what he does. Although on one level it might be nice to have a book outline the best course of growth and correction for our society, that is difficult and dangerous. Life the Movie is not rhetoric or propaganda. It is simply a searching and clear-sighted analysis of American culture, and it will change the way you look at your surroundings and yourself...
...above pieces are actually among the least political of the exhibition. A number of photo montages, primarily by John Heartfield and El Lissitzky, take up Soviet propaganda, Hitler and Weimar politics with a style that anticipates, but far from outshines, contemporary artists like Barbara Kruger. Their montages are busy, uninviting, but important. Heartfield's One must have a special disposition toward suicide. It illustrates the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg by the Freikorps--an event which put an end to any realistic hopes for a Communist revolution in the Weimar Republic. Heartfield lays Liebknecht's mordant head among...
Instead of representation, instead of 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...
...raising their profile" under the guidance of a senior official. (Before Sunday, no one was willing to take the assignment.) In coming months, the CIA will return to the drawing board to dream up another covert-action plan involving clandestine funds, recruitment among disgruntled military officers and stepped-up propaganda. But White House officials concede that "there's no magic pill there. You just don't run in and throw some secret things at Saddam...
...politically correct like to avoid absolute judgments, but Margaret Thatcher, Mansfield's recommendation for a future speaker, has surely had a greater historical impact than the three cited selections combined. Of course, today's students, immune to right-wing propaganda, no longer think winning the Cold War was all that important. Nor was rescuing Britain's ailing socialist economy a sufficiently compassionate enterprise to earn Maggie their respect. Still, in the spirit of pluralism, maybe Harvard should invite that heartless statesperson to say her piece...