L'Europe Blessée · 708
VOICE Shaw on the civilians' anti-German fury (1917) · 709
VOICE Arnold White, The Hidden Hand (1917) · 710
26. The Artist Prophet and Jester · 713
SECTION popular Modernism · 713
ALSO philistine alive during the Cubist Decade 647 · 713
ALSO "art for life's sake" 620 · 714
ALSO "Middle Ages" 224 · 714
THEME EMANCIPATION · 714
SECTION literature · 714
ALSO the welfare state 688 · 714
WORK T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land · 715
WORK Joyce, Ulysses · 715
WORK Shaw, Heartbreak House · 715
WORK Proust, Remembrance of Things Past ["in search of lost time"] · 715
ALSO prose 353 · 716
ALSO populism 595 651 · 716
WORK Yeats · 717
SECTION overlapping styles of art · 717
VOICE Wyndham Lewis (1915) · 718
VOICE Ernest Hemingway (1925) · 718
THEME PRIMITIVISM · 718
VOICE On the cover of Dada No. 3 (1917) · 719
VOICE Gerald Bullet, The Jury (1935) · 719
ALSO Marcel Duchamp 722 · 719
ALSO Abolitionism 619 · 719
ALSO H. M. Barzun 648 · 719
VOICE André Breton (1934) · 720
THEME INDIVIDUALISM · 720
VOICE DADA SONG · 720
THEME EMANCIPATION · 720
ALSO 18C Gothic 410 · 721
SECTION modernist art · 721
VOICE Constant Lambert (1934) · 721
FURTHER LIGHT Calvin Tomkins, The World of Marcel Duchamp · 722
THEME EMANCIPATION · 722
THEME ABSTRACTION · 723
ALSO art as line, color, texture 622 646 · 723
ALSO music as sound 727 · 724
FURTHER LIGHT Ortega y Gasset, The Dehumanization of Art · 724
SECTION architecture and design · 725
ALSO design 726 · 725
ALSO machine industry 554 · 725
FURTHER LIGHT Henry Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, The International Style · 725
ALSO Auguste Perret 677 · 725
THEME REDUCTIVISM · 726
WORK Robert Loewy, Industrial Design · 727
SECTION music · 727
VOICE Constant Lambert, "The Mechanical Stimulus" (1934) · 727
THEME EMANCIPATION · 728
WORK Varèse, Ionisation · 728
VOICE Karlheinz Stockhausen (1969) · 728
THEME SCIENTISM · 729
ALSO 19C orchestra · 729
WORK Harry Partch, Genesis of a Music · 729
SECTION Mondernist theories and moods · 730
VOICE John Marin (c. 1910) · 730
VOICE Tristan Tzara (1926) · 731
THEME SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS · 732
SECTION resistance to Modernism · 732
THEME EMANCIPATION · 732
SECTION literature and life in the Twenties · 733
THEME EMANCIPATION · 734
THEME EMANCIPATION · 734
WORK John Held, Jr., drawings · 735
WORK Percy Marks, The Plastic Age · 735
SECTION theater and other entertainment · 735
ALSO Stanislavsky 675 · 736
ALSO D. W. Griffith 649 · 736
ALSO Isadora Duncan 677 · 738
SECTION crime fiction · 739
ALSO tales and novels 111 352 · 739
VOICE E. M. Wrong (1926) · 739
VOICE R. T. M. Scott, "Bombay Duck" (1929) · 739
THEME SCIENTISM · 740
VOICE Emerson, "Compensation" · 740
FURTHER LIGHT J. Barzun and W. H. Taylor, eds., Catalogue of Crime · 740
ALSO spy stories and true crime 739?? · 741
PORTRAIT Dorothy Sayers · 741
WORK Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night · 742
WORK Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise · 742
WORK Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker · 742
VOICE Dorothy Sayers, Pantheon Papers · 743
VOICE Dorothy Sayers: Prospectus for a series of books to be edited by her (1940) · 744
27. Embracing the Absurd · 745
SECTION between the wars; Laval · 745
FURTHER LIGHT William Wiser, The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties · 745
FURTHER LIGHT D. C. Somervell, Between the Wars · 746
ALSO punitive war reparations 711 · 746
FURTHER LIGHT René de Chambrun, Laval, Traitor or Patriot? · 749
SECTION science and techne between the wars · 749
VOICE Anatole France to Nicholas Ségur (c. 1920) · 750
VOICE Headline over a review of two books in Science (1962) · 752
PORTRAIT James Agate · 753
VOICE James Agate · 753
VOICE James Agate in Ego (1935) · 754
WORK J. Barzun, ed., The Later Ego [Ego 8 and 9] · 754
SECTION absuridty and existentialism · 754
VOICE Ronald [R. D.] Laing, Knots (1970) · 756
ALSO Surrealism 723 · 757
VOICE Jean-François Revel (1970) · 758
VOICE Winston Churchill, at Harvard (1943) · 759
ALSO serious-absurd in the arts 722 · 759
VOICE The artistic director of the Shaw Festival, in Canada (1995) · 759
VOICE Jonathan Miller on some effects in painting (1990) · 760
THEME SCIENTISM · 760
SECTION Relativism · 760
VOICE Louis MacNeice, "Snow" (1970) · 762
ALSO murther 228 · 762
ALSO 6th commandment not absolute 701 · 762
SECTION Communism; civil rights; revolt of the young · 763
ALSO Middle Ages 229 · 766
THEME EMANCIPATION · 766
SECTION statistics, models · 766
THEME ABSTRACTION, ANALYSIS · 766
THEME ANALYSIS · 766
ALSO philosphies of history 653 · 768
SECTION security and freedom: Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor" · 769
WORK Dostoevsky, "The Grand Inquistor," a chapter in The Brothers Karamazov · 770
ALSO Peter the Great 319 · 771
28. Demotic Life and Times - A View from New York Around 1995 · 773
SECTION a demotic not a democratic age · 773
SECTION Separatism · 774
ALSO "our culture?" xvii · 774
THEME EMANCIPATION · 775
SECTION violence in the welfare state · 776
VOICE Ice-T, internationally renowned rapper (1998) · 777
VOICE William Stafford, "Freedom" (1970) · 777
SECTION bureaucracy · 778
VOICE Louis B. Lundborg, The Art of Being an Executive · 778
VOICE Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense · 779
SECTION government · 779
SECTION the unconditioned life · 781
THEME EMANCIPATION · 781
ALSO informality 734 · 781
VOICE Judith Martin (1996) · 782
VOICE News item, June 17, 1999 [on decriminalizing certain offenses] · 782
THEME EMANCIPATION · 783
VOICE Letter in the New York Times (1991) [on protests] · 783
VOICE Bill Murray, actor (1999) [on going to college] · 783
SECTION conglomeration · 784
VOICE Richard Foster, "Defining Museums for the 21st Century" (1998) · 784
VOICE Julian Spalding, director of the Manchester (England) City Gallery (1989) · 784
VOICE At a college in the Northeast (1998) · 784
VOICE David Travis (1994) · 784
VOICE The dean of an Ivy-League collee to arriving students · 785
VOICE New York Times (1996) · 785
THEME SPECIALISM, EMANCIPATION, SEPARATISM · 785
SECTION the demotic self · 785
VOICE Lord Leighton (1857) · 786
ALSO the joy to be alive 8 · 786
THEME SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, ANALYSIS · 786
VOICE Maureen Dowd (1995) · 786
VOICE Cecil Jenkins, Message from Sirius (1961) · 786
SECTION compassion, irreverence, creativity · 786
ALSO surfeit of art 790 · 788
FURTHER LIGHT Max Eastman, Journalism Versus Art · 788
VOICE Interview, New York Times (1996) · 789
VOICE News item, February 20, 1999 · 789
VOICE Hortense Calisher, Queenie (1971) · 789
VOICE Erich Kuby, Rose-Marie (1960) · 790
SECTION art · 790
VOICE Voltaire (1748) · 790
ALSO De Sade 448 · 791
VOICE A critic on Rothko (1999) · 791
VOICE One artist about another · 791
VOICE A scuptor on his work · 791
VOICE George Crumb (n.d.) · 791
VOICE Andy Warhol (1987) · 791
ALSO Rimbaud 618 · 791
SECTION language, schooling · 792
VOICE Chekhov, Notebooks (n.d.) · 792
VOICE Report on a progressive school (1919) · 793
VOICE Simon Schama (1998) · 793
VOICE Kathy H. in the fourth grade (1972) · 793
VOICE Teacher in Macungie, Pennsylvania (1999) · 793
FURTHER LIGHT Lawrence Cremin, The Transformation of the School · 793
SECTION sports and other professions · 794
VOICE Obituary of James B. Reston (1995) · 795
ALSO State Life 535 652 · 795
VOICE Around a picture of Uncle Sam pointing his finger at the reader (1997) · 796
SECTION the Internet; science and techne · 796
THEME ANALYSIS, REDUCTIVISM · 796
THEME ASBSTRACTION · 796
VOICE Judge Stewart Dalzell (1996) · 797
SECTION Ortega y Gasset · 797
WORK Ortega y Gasset, The Modern Theme · 798
FURTHER LIGHT John T. Graham, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Life in Ortega y Gasset · 798
SECTION Let Us End with a Prologue · 798
SECTION Our Age · 799
THEME EMANCIPATION · 799
FURTHER LIGHT Humphrey Jennings, Pandemonium [The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers, 1660-1885] · 799
ALSO geometrical mind 216 · 799
SECTION the preceding (773–798) was A View from New York Around 1995 · 802
Reference Notes · 803
Index of Persons · 829
Index of Subjects · 853
Updated 2010 01 22 17 51 24 by Leo Wong