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The book is an account of the battle of Adrianopolis (Turkey) in 1912 in which the author volunteered as a Futurist-soldier.
Futurism (1909-1944) was perhaps the first movement in the history of art to be engineered and managed like a business.
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at 3:16 AM on August 2, 2007
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For Saddam Hussein, he is an oppressor, but the solution is not to kill every oppressor to smash a whole people, destroy civilizations, and kill children and women and deceit.
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at 10:05 AM on February 9, 2007
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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
,
Witkacy for short.
Artist, photographer,
absurdist playwright, surrealist novelist,
philosopher,
witness to the Russian revolution, art theoretician and
critic, the
Great Malinowski's closest friend,
drug fiend, and by most accounts a
raving maniac and
self-involved pain in the ass. His
greatest novel was sadly prophetic: fleeing east to escape the invading Nazis, and then hearing the news that the Communists were also on the way, he slit his wrists on September 18, 1939 in the village of Jeziory,
a martyr and victim to his obstinate belief in the freedom and independence of man against the bankruptcy of ideology and the coming wave of totalitarianism.
Previously
here, but this guy's work is just too
bizarrely compelling, and his legacy too obscure, to not get a little bit more attention.
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at 7:21 AM on November 18, 2006
(16 comments)
This is what happens
when you put on a banana suit, soak yourself in accelerant, and light yourself on fire.
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at 6:54 PM on July 22, 2006
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Dictator of the Month.
Your one stop shop for all your dictator-oriented needs. Even includes
scorecards.
From
Amin to
Zedong, they're all right here, folks. Enjoy some righteous anger.
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at 2:03 PM on March 21, 2006
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