Word: weimar
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...Legitimization of a guy who wears a sheet. Go read up on Weimar. The K-School fails to invite lots of controversial people, and this particular neo-Nazi is particularly revolting and particularly sneaky...
...Constitution. Democracies that lack such myths can be emotionally naked. A constitutional monarch supplies the mythic dimension in a convenient package. Winston Churchill, who was both a partisan pol and an ardent monarchist, believed that if defeated Germany had had a constitutional monarch after World War I, the Weimar Republic might have withstood the seductions of Nazism...
...conference was "born out of the recent events in Germany," said Reynolds. "But it will concentrate on the interplay between culture and politics and the artist's position in German society [from the Weimar Republic to the present]," he said...
...albeit a box the size of a museum? Led by Jean Clair, the director of the Musee Picasso in Paris, six curators have set out to raise and question the ghosts of the queen cities of Modernism: Paris, Berlin and New York -- with detours to London, Weimar (for the Bauhaus), Cologne (for Dada) and Moscow (for Constructivism) -- in the decade between the end of World War I and the arrival of the 1929 Depression...
...Mechanic, 1920, the arcadian strains in '20s French painting, Matisse and Derain, for example, find no place in it. And quite a lot of lesser art does because -- derivative or coarse though it sometimes is -- it has something to say about the pervasiveness of imagery. Much of Weimar-period German art is a crude mix of De Chirico and cartooning, but one doesn't object to seeing it here, although it quickly stales...