Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's
alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for
an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent
...nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with
either capitalist commercialism or the postwar rebellion against
it. By focusing on his sensitivity to political struggle, however,
leading film commentators here offer fascinating insights into
Mekas's career as a writer, filmdistributor, and film-maker, while
exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World
War II. This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs
addresses such topics as Mekas's column in the Village Voice, his
foundation and editorship of Film Culture, his role in the
establishment of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers Co-op
(the major distribution center for independent film), his
interaction with other artists, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono,
and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of
the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that
followed Walden. The contributors to this volume are Paul Arthur,
Vyt Bakaitis, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Rudy Burckhardt, David
Curtis, Richard Foreman, Tom Gunning, Bob Harris, J. Hoberman,
David E. James, Marjorie Keller, Peter Kubelka, George Kuchar,
Richard Leacock, Barbara Moore, Peter Moore, Scott Nygren, John
Pruitt, Lauren Rabinovitz, Michael Renov, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, and
Maureen Turim.
ABSTRACT This article explores cultural innovations taking place in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. The year evidenced numerous changes in the then capital. These have, though, been eclipsed by the dominant ...focus on avant-garde experimentations by modernist artists in São Paulo. Returning to 1922 and zooming in on Rio, this article explores transformations that altered the space of the city, and its popular cultural landscape. By doing so, the article seeks to widen the landscape of Brazil’s cultural modernity to encompass developments taking place beyond the confines of the modernist movement and the city of São Paulo. It does this by analysing cultural revolutions taking place in 1922 in terms of Rio’s “vernacular modernisms”, to borrow from Miriam Hansen (1999). Specifically it explores changes in urban planning, in popular music and live performance, in the teatro de revista and in popular literature.
RESUMO Este artigo explora as inovações culturais que ocorrem no Rio de Janeiro em 1922. Uma série de mudanças se dão na então capital ao longo do ano, as quais foram, no entanto, eclipsadas pelo enfoque dominante nas experiências vanguardistas de artistas modernistas em São Paulo. Voltando a 1922 e tomando como foco o Rio, este artigo explora as transformações que alteraram o próprio espaço da cidade e a sua paisagem cultural popular. Ao fazê-lo, procura alargar a paisagem da modernidade cultural do Brasil para abranger desenvolvimentos que ocorrem para além dos estreitos limites do movimento modernista e da cidade de São Paulo. Faz isto analisando as revoluções culturais modernas ocorridas em 1922 em termos dos “modernismos vernáculos” do Rio, segundo a acepção de Miriam Hansen (1999). Explora especificamente as mudanças ocorridas no planejamento urbano, na música popular e na performance ao vivo, no teatro de revista e na literatura popular.
Leopold Kerney was one of the most influential diplomats of twentieth-century Irish history. This book presents the first comprehensive biography of Kerney's career in its entirety from his ...recruitment to the diplomatic service to his time in France, Spain, Argentina, and Chile. Barry Whelan's work provides fascinating new perceptions of Irish diplomatic history at seminal periods of the twentieth century, including the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War, the Anglo-Irish Economic War, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, from an eyewitness to those events. Drawing on over a decade of archival research in repositories in France, Germany, Britain, Spain, and Ireland, as well as through unique and unrestricted access to Kerney's private papers, Whelan successfully challenges previously published analyses of Kerney's work and debunks many of the perceived controversies surrounding his career. Ireland's Revolutionary Diplomat brings to life Kerney's connections with leading Irish figures from the revolutionary generation including Michael Collins, Ernest Blythe, George Gavan Duffy, Desmond FitzGerald, Arthur Griffith, and Seán T. O'Kelly, as well as his diplomatic colleagues in the service. More importantly, the book illuminates the decades-long friendship Kerney enjoyed with Éamon de Valera—the most important Irish political figure of the twentieth century—and shows how the "Chief" trusted and rewarded his friend throughout their long association. The book offers a fresh understanding of the Department of External Affairs and critically assesses the roles of Joseph Walshe, secretary of the department, as well as Colonel Dan Bryan, director of G2 (Irish Army Military Intelligence), who both conspired to destroy Kerney's reputation and career during and after World War II. Whelan sheds new light on other events in Kerney's career, such as his confidential reports from fascist Spain that exposed General Francisco Franco's crimes against his people. Whelan challenges other events previously seen by some historians as controversial, including Kerney's major role in the Frank Ryan case, his contact with senior Nazi figures, especially Dr. Edmund Veesenmayer and German military intelligence, and his libel case against an acclaimed Irish historian Professor Desmond Williams. This book offers new observations on how Nazi Germany tried to utilize Kerney, unsuccessfully, as a liaison between the Irish government and Hitler's regime. Captured German documents reveal the extent of this secret plan to alter Irish neutrality during World War II, which concerned both Adolf Hitler and the leading Nazis of his regime.
A Semana de Arte Moderna, no Brasil de 1922, foi uma atividade patrocinada por homens endinheirados, realizada num ambiente de pessoas endinheiradas e assistida por um público de homens e mulheres ...endinheirados. Seu alcance, todavia, ultrapassou esse universo social, astúcia das Artes, fez-se História também criticamente, às vezes sem o querer, e dialogou com outras modernidades sociais ao indagar o que era aquele Brasil.
SUMMARY
We recently found the original Omori seismograms recorded at Hongo, Tokyo, of the 1922 Atacama, Chile, earthquake (MS = 8.3) in the historical seismogram archive of the Earthquake Research ...Institute (ERI) of the University of Tokyo. These recordings enable a quantitative investigation of long-period seismic radiation from the 1922 earthquake. We document and provide interpretation of these seismograms together with a few other seismograms from Mizusawa, Japan, Uppsala, Sweden, Strasbourg, France, Zi-ka-wei, China and De Bilt, Netherlands. The 1922 event is of significant historical interest concerning the cause of tsunami, discovery of G wave, and study of various seismic phase and first-motion data. Also, because of its spatial proximity to the 1943, 1995 and 2015 great earthquakes in Chile, the 1922 event provides useful information on similarity and variability of great earthquakes on a subduction-zone boundary. The 1922 source region, having previously ruptured in 1796 and 1819, is considered to have significant seismic hazard. The focus of this paper is to document the 1922 seismograms so that they can be used for further seismological studies on global subduction zones. Since the instrument constants of the Omori seismographs were only incompletely documented, we estimate them using the waveforms of the observed records, a calibration pulse recorded on the seismogram and the waveforms of better calibrated Uppsala Wiechert seismograms. Comparison of the Hongo Omori seismograms with those of the 1995 Antofagasta, Chile, earthquake (Mw = 8.0) and the 2015 Illapel, Chile, earthquake (Mw = 8.3) suggests that the 1922 event is similar to the 1995 and 2015 events in mechanism (i.e. on the plate boundary megathrust) and rupture characteristics (i.e. not a tsunami earthquake) with Mw = 8.6 ± 0.25. However, the initial fine scale rupture process varies significantly from event to event. The G1 and G2, and R1 and R2 of the 1922 event are comparable in amplitude, suggesting a bilateral rupture, which is uncommon for large megathrust earthquakes.
A pintura O Homem Amarelo, de Anita Malfatti, exibida na Exposição de Arte Moderna de 1917 e na Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922, arrancou risos descontrolados do escritor e modernista Mário de ...Andrade. Obra icônica do Modernismo brasileiro, a pintura é considerada divisora de águas nas artes plásticas, rompendo com o fazer-pictórico da época. Para tanto, pretendemos analisá-la à luz da semiótica plástica e figurativa (FLOCH, 1985; THURLEMANN, 1982-86; GREIMAS, 2004), observando também o sensível e o inteligível no fazer estético e examinando-a como ‘acontecimento’ de Zilberberg, levando em consideração a tensiva (ZILBERBERG, 2011; FONTANILLE, 2005). A principal conjectura é de que O Homem Amarelo, remodelando conceitos estético-culturais do fazer pictórico da doxa da época, forneceu à hexis corporal da Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922, de maneira estética e ética, efeitos de sentido de identidade e estilo.
A Tibetan Revolutionary Goldstein, Melvyn C; Sherap, Dawei; Siebenschuh, William R
05/2004
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This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, ...where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao's Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party's administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Phünwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable with Chinese culture, and devoted to socialism and the Communist Party, Phünwang's deep commitment to the welfare of Tibetans made him suspect to powerful Han colleagues. In 1958 he was secretly detained; three years later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Beijing's equivalent of the Bastille for the next eighteen years. Informed by vivid firsthand accounts of the relations between the Dalai Lama, the Nationalist Chinese government, and the People's Republic of China, this absorbing chronicle illuminates one of the world's most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the fascinating details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet.
This article examines the memorialisation of the Battle of Dumlupınar (30 August 1922) in Kütahya, Turkey. Through an investigation of landmarks, literature and oral history, we explore the post-war ...imaginings and settings of this battle. We observe three major practices of war memorialisation in the battlegrounds of Dumlupınar: state, public and local. State and public practices are largely intertwined and embody themselves in the form of highly visible landmarks and regulated acts of commemoration. The local practices are subtler and represent counter narratives of war entangled with the conflict landscape, myths, and local politics. By looking into this dichotomy, this article scrutinises the present role of battlegrounds in the memorialisation of the Battle of Dumlupınar.
Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and
Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long
dedication to challenging social and economic
inequality
On December 8, 1941, Grace Holmes Carlson, ...the only female
defendant among eighteen Trotskyists convicted under the Smith Act,
was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for advocating
the violent overthrow of the government. After serving a year in
Alderson prison, Carlson returned to her work as an organizer for
the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and ran for vice president of the
United States under its banner in 1948. Then, in 1952, she abruptly
left the SWP and returned to the Catholic Church. With the support
of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who had educated her as a child,
Carlson began a new life as a professor of psychology at St. Mary's
Junior College in Minneapolis where she advocated for social
justice, now as a Catholic Marxist.
The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist,
Feminist is a historical biography that examines the story of
this complicated woman in the context of her times with a specific
focus on her experiences as a member of the working class, as a
Catholic, and as a woman. Her story illuminates the workings of
class identity within the context of various influences over the
course of a lifespan. It contributes to recent historical
scholarship exploring the importance of faith in workers' lives and
politics. And it uncovers both the possibilities and limitations
for working-class and revolutionary Marxist women in the period
between the first and second wave feminist movements. The long arc
of Carlson's life (1906-1992) ultimately reveals significant
continuities in her political consciousness that transcended the
shifts in her particular partisan commitments, most notably her
life-long dedication to challenging the root causes of social and
economic inequality. In that struggle, Carlson ultimately proved
herself to be a truly fierce woman.
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