THE GERMAN ARTISTS BETWEEN THE WARS, PART ONE GEORGE GROSZ Nothing is more sad than a perpetually disillusioned person. George Grosz spent his art career as a social critic; an artist who dissected his own tragic era with a knife-edged line. This podcast investigates...
Re-reading The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936 by Walter Benjamin Part One Also know as The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, this essay by Walter Benjamin has been published in three different versions. The...
WALTER BENJAMIN (1892 -1940) Life and Work: Part Two Working for German publications, Walter Benjamin earned enough money to spend some months in Paris where, in 1927, he began his famous and unfinished Arcades Project. As one would imagine, he and his wife Dora...
WALTER BENJAMIN (1892 -1940) Life and Work: Part One Like many Jewish intellectuals in Germany, Walter Benjamin considered himself “German”. His family was privileged and fully assimilated into the larger German society. It would be this stratum of German society...
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND CRITICAL THEORY, PART TWO It was the fate of the Frankfurt School, or the Institut für Sozialforschung, to be in the wrong place doing the right thing. The members of the School, Max Horkheimer, Friedrich Pollock, Herman Marcuse, Franz...
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND CRITICAL THEORY PART ONE “A categorical imperative has been imposed by Hitler upon unfree mankind; to arrange their thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself, so that nothing similar will happen.” Theodor W....
