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Machine Art in the Twentieth Century

Andreas Broeckmann

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"Machine art" is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists...

Maria Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art

Nancy Deffebach

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Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to...

Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art

Peter Weibel

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This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the...

Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Susan Vreeland

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Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century, from the...

Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in Books

Jul 28, 2017

An important and terrifying fable still relevant

It's probably quite important to understand that this is a novel and so there is a lot of artistic license taken with it by the author. That being said the main protagonist, nine-year-old Bruno was brilliantly written, a great juxtaposition of unwaning innocence and extreme cruelty in a time of brutality.

Having visited Auschwitz myself, the naive descriptions of the young boy is gut churning especially as he is so unaware of his fate. The reader does a great job in performing the role of an innocent child.

It is a moral story about complacency and how easy it is to fall into patterns, so it is essential to read with an open mind.

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Barry Newman (204 KP) rated Melancholia (2011) in Movies

Feb 8, 2020

Melancholia (2011)

2011 | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

7.5

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Essentially the Lars Von Trier version of ‘Armageddon’ and probably about as accessible as his films get. Undoubtedly an impressive and well constructed film on a technical level, it’s gorgeous to look at and has a decent performance from Kirsten Dunst who convincingly portrays a manic depressive. Unfortunately It’s also painfully slow, ponderous and quite dull at times with incredibly long drawn out scenes of conversation that could have been more effective if they were half as long . I would have certainly preferred a snappier cut especially as there isn’t really that much in the way of story. So in artistic terms it’s quite impressive but it’s certainly a slog to get through and isn’t something I would watch again.