January 20, 2009
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Like Mauss and Bataille, Thorstein Veblen is interested in the social logic of consumption.
Sociological and cultural aspects of autism
sleep deprivation to cure depression.
While researching Aktivismus (in relationship to my Gaston Burssens binge[1]), I came across the powerful work of German female painter Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907) is considered a representative of early expressionism.
She produced nude self-portraits of which the two depicted are perhaps examples. I'm too tired to check.
The one painting with the baby is particularly foretelling. When Paula's long-lived wish to conceive and bear a child was fulfilled, her daughter Mathilde (Tillie) Modersohn was born but the joy became soon overshadowed by tragedy, as Paula Modersohn-Becker died suddenly in Worpswede on November 20th from an embolism.
Since she died young, she is one of the few 20th century artists whose work is in the public domain.
- "Formally one can detect influences from German and French expressionism and from the poetry of Paul van Ostaijen, while in terms of subject matter the poems partly follow the line of Kurt Hiller’s ‘Aktivismus’ and Henri Barbusse’s internationally oriented cultural movement Clarté." --Matthijs de Ridder
User:Jahsonic/I am a romantic at heart
Two pioneers of "space age pop" celebrate their anniversaries today.
At 70 there is French electronic music producer Jean-Jacques Perrey, with "E. V. A." [2]. Perrey is alive.
At 80 there is Mexican bandleader and pioneer of lounge music Juan García Esquivel with "Cherokee" [3]. Esquivel died in 2002.
