British Propaganda and Women The Psychology of Posters Warfare, especially modern war, has had a strange impact upon men. It is assumed that war and combat is the ultimate event of masculinization, completing the identity of the male. Traditionally, the equation of...
British Propaganda The Psychology of Posters When the Great War began in August of 1914, Great Britain was at a distinct disadvantage. Although it was expected that Germany would be aggressive at some point, this was not a war the English wanted. The British Isles...
Dada Émigrés in Exile The Disintegration of Kultur, Part Two Today the city is called Leuven but one hundred years ago, the university town was called “Louvain,” and it was the site of an atrocity, a war crime against property, against culture, against...
Dada Émigrés in Exile The Disintegration of Kultur, Part One On the one hundredth centenary of Dada, the gesture and the non-movement, distance and time has allowed for a new examination of what is are a conglomeration of confusing and contradictory groups of...
Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp in New York The Americanization of Dada, Part One In an interview with Pierre Cabanne, decades after the Great War, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) explained how he became an artist and how it was that he came to be exempted from military...
