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' The first half, with a long section in austere black-and-white, is an almost Loachian exercise in #socialrealism, with the band improvising their mopey, mumbling dialogue. #Loach himself might admire the scene in which would-be sax player Lee Thompson tries to get lessons and the teacher susses that his saxophone is stolen. This really does give you an idea of what it was like, minute by minute, to be in pre-fame #Madness. '
A Painting Too Large to IgnorePacita Abad’s Flight to Freedom grew from her encounters with Cambodian refugees near the Thai border around the period of the...
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https://blanton.emuseum.com/objects/14537/dance-marathon
Although subtlety is not one of the virtues of Philip Evergood's 1934 "Dance Marathon", viewers today might well require an explanation of what dance marathons were in order to understand the picture.
Once the subject is clarified, the picture provides an excellent starting point for thinking about art and the Great Depression and the possibilities and problems of "political" art then and now.
"Dance Marathon" also offers a way into some important literature of the twenties and thirties, since a dance marathon is central to hardboiled writer Horace McCoy's 1935 novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/187728/ Cairo Station [1958] – The Struggles against Sexual Repression and Social Oppression #1958 #Drama #Egypt #Melodrama #Neorealism #SocialRealism #Thriller #Tragicomedy
Your art history post for today: by Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), “500,000 Czechs on Nazi Front,” 1938, tempera on masonite, 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm.), photo: Christie’s New York, 23 May 2013. #arthistory #painting #WPA #socialrealism
Context: in 1938, Germany annexed Austria. Taking over the northern part of Czechoslovakia (known as the Sudetenland) was Hitler’s next priority. The leaders of Britain, Italy, France, and Germany met in Munich to discuss the issue September 29-30, 1938. They pointedly did not include leaders of Czechoslovakia in the meeting.
The Allies agreed in that meeting to German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for Germany’s pledge of peace. This agreement is known as the Munich Pact.
And we all know how much a Nazi pledge of peace turned out to be worth. Never take a dictator at his word. Not then, not today.
