...influenza was believed to be caused by bacteria—namely, Haemophilus influenzae—and the notion of a viral cause at the time was still considered only hypothetical: the world would have had to wait ...until the development of the electron microscope, in the early 1930s, for the first identification of viruses. When governments started to impose quarantines, restrict public gatherings, and offer medical treatment, many people had already died in terrible conditions. In several countries, however, the biggest legacy of the 1918 influenza pandemic was the foundation of a true public health system, which happened in France, Britain, and Sweden, for example.
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of ...antisemitism on the nascent field. He and other German Zionists believed Zionism could strengthen German-Jewish identity. They presented Zionism as an extension of German patriotism by positioning Zionist aspirations within a German colonial narrative.
For whom the bell tolled De Ambrogi, Marco
The Lancet infectious diseases,
January 2019, 2019-01-00, 20190101, Letnik:
19, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In the documentary, a panel of commentators, including several art historians, actress and model Lily Cole, and pop singer Iggy Pop, share their impressions on Schiele. After he was put on trial and ...condemned to a short spell in prison for public indecency, when some of his nude paintings were found hanging in his studio where local children could come and go, he used that negative fame to expand his market, this time portraying more mature women. Reflecting on one of the most controversial figures of modern art, Egon Schiele: dangerous desires is an interesting exploration of the reasons why Schiele remains a divisive artist to this very day and how his legacy has affected following generations, even outside painting.
Despite being 'one of the most distinctive and distinguished of those British poets who began to publish in the 1950s', the writer, editor, critic, and translator Jon Silkin remains a largely ...forgotten figure in contemporary poetry. However, with the publication his Complete Poems in 2015 and the availability of his archive, there has been a renewed critical interest in the charismatic, prolific, and contentious poet. Drawing heavily from Silkin's unpublished correspondence, this article contributes to this revival by exploring his place within the post-1945 Anglo-Jewish community and his relationship to his Jewish identity and cultural heritage. In particular, it investigates how the First World War poet (and fellow Anglo-Jew) Isaac Rosenberg became a vital means through which Silkin articulated his poetic identity as one caught between two hyphenated cultures and histories and defined his relationship with his Anglo-Jewish contemporaries.
This article examines the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War, using a sample of recruits from the army service ...records. These are linked to their childhood circumstances as observed in the 1901 census. Econometric results indicate that height on enlistment was positively related to socio-economic class, and negatively to the number of children in the household in 1901 and the proportion of household members who were earners, as well as to the degree of crowding. Adding the characteristics of the locality has little effect on the household-level effects. However local conditions were important; in particular the industrial character of the district, local housing conditions, and the female illiteracy rate. These are interpreted as representing the negative effect on height of the local disease environment. The results suggest that changing conditions at both household and locality levels contributed to the increase in height and health in the following decades.
Egon Schiele Selsdon, Esther; Zwingenberger, Jeanette
2011, 2012-01-17
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the great Expressionist painters. He was taught by Gustav Klimt and, at a very early age, like his Viennese Secession predecessors, broke with the traditions of ...official Austrian art. His numerous selfportraits and nude models remained consistent throughout his career and reflected his erotic, sensual and tormented vision of art. This title presents a biography of the artist and a commentary that enable us to learn about his controversial works. Mega Square's small and practical format is bound to make it a perfect gift.
The rhythm of eternity Adriaansen, Robbert-Jan
2015, 2015., 20150701, 2015-07-15, Letnik:
22
eBook, Book
The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book traces the ...conceptions of time and history in the Germany of the early 20th century. By focusing on both the discourse and practices of the youth movement, the author shows how it reinterpreted and revived the past to overthrow the premises of modern historical thought. In so doing, this book provides insight into the social implications of the ideological de-historicization of the past.
Otto Wagner, Kolo Moser, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele, all of whom have had a lasting impact on the architecture and art of Vienna. In addition to Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Lise Meitner, ...a pioneer of the atomic age, has recently become the subject of a comprehensive portrait by David Rennert and Tanja Traxler, two journalists of the bourgeois-liberal daily Der Standard. The artist and cook, who spent a lifetime in the shadow of her husband, the avant-garde artist Oswald Wiener, was the subject of a biography by Die Zeit journalist Carolin Würfel: Ingrid Wiener und die Kunst der Befreiung: Wien 1968 | Berlin 1972 (2019). According to the book's blurb, Ronzheimer had interviewed Kurz several times and got access to his inner circle, friends, and members of his family to compile his text.
EDITOR'S NOTE Simon, Daniel
World literature today,
09/2015, Letnik:
89, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
What does a psalm from the Hebrew Bible have to do with this issue's marquee theme, "Bodies in Literature"-other than our primordial fascination with sex and violence? Since the earliest days of ...civilization, writers have shared with painters, sculptors, dancers, and actors-even more than a solicitude for their own bodies-an affinity for bodies other than their own, and the nine authors included in the current issue showcase an astonishing array of texts that investigate the embodied human condition. Throughout art history, there is a long tradition of male painters using female models for their portraits-including Henri Matisse, as discussed in Najwa Ali's essay "Matisse / Odalisque / Modernity," and Egon Schiele, who appears in Zsuzsa Takács's poem "On Vision."
Over three decades, Italian actor Claudia Contin Arlecchino and theater director Ferruccio Merisi collaborated on tragedia dell'arte, a tanztheater technique based on the works of Austrian ...Expressionist painter Egon Schiele. Detecting formal relations between painted figure and performatic gesture, and composing such gestures into choreography, Contin Arlecchino and Merisi derived a figural dance from Schiele's visual works. By connecting painting with acting and dance, tragedia dell'arte offers an example of Western contemporary intermedial aesthetic. Ultimately, tragedia dell'arte demonstrates how dance can support acting in its engagement of painting.
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