No.16 July, 2000
 
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of FMTP back numbers FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.11 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 11th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 8 The Great War( Section 1- 2, 1st of 3 parts) ( Socialist's attitude toward the war in Germany and Britain ; Attitude of artists and intellectuals--G.B.Shaw, The New Age, Thomas Mann, Jean Cocteau, D'Annunzio, Mussolini ; Thomas Mann's veiw of the war --Culture vs Civilization ; Hanna Arendt's view -- prelude to the rise of the masses ; Pound in London, publication of Noh and the Cathey) Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (3) FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.12 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 12th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 8 The Great War( Section 3- 4, 2nd of 3 parts) ( Gaudier-Brzeska goes to the War ; Letters of Gaudier-Brzeska to Pound; Death of Gaudier-Brzeska and the publication of BLAST war number; Report in Japanese newspaper on Gaudier-Brzeska's death by Yone Noguchi who once had met him and Pound at Yeats' studio; Publication of Memoir and the exhibition of Vorticist Art in New York produced by John Quinn and Pound; Ford Madox Ford goes to the War; Herbert Read meets Ford in the War; Death of T.E. Hulme; American writers goes to the War; Schism between who went to the War and who didn't--Stephen Spender's view; Bloomsbury group and the War; D.H.Laurence's experience expressed in Kangaroo ; Publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce; Birth of Dada in Zurich) Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (4) FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.13 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 13th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 8 The Great War( Section 5- 6, 3rd of 3 parts) (Arrival of T. S. Eliot in London; Eliot meets Pound; Eliot, Bertrand Russell, and Bloomsbury group; Publication of Lustra; Pound becomes foreign editor of The Little Review; Pound begins art and music criticism in The New Age Start of The Cantos in Poetry; Start of Ulysses in The Little Review; Thomas Mann's anti-democratic view in Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen; Pound criticizes Germany in "Provincialism the enemy"; Revolution in Russia, Hungary, and Germany and the end of the war) Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (5) FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.14 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 14th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 9 Social Credit( Section 1- 2, 1st of 2 parts) <Summary of the Article> After the war: start of the new predicament; Serious depression in Britain; Bertland Russel turns to Socialism and then denies Bolshevism; Birth of Fascism in Italy; Walter Benjamin's view on fascism in 1936; Pound and Social Credit; John Maynard Keynes and Social Credit; John Kennes Galbraith's view of Social Credit: forerunner of the new monetary theory. Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (6) Whistler met Dante Gabriel Rossetti on July 28, 1862 and became frequent visitor to his house in Chelsea. But he never joined the Pre-Raphaelite group. What deterred him from joinning the group were his concern about French realism and his enthusiasm for Japanese art. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.15 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 15th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 9 Social Credit( Section 3- 5, 2nd of 2 parts) <Summary of the Article> Publication of Quia Pauper Amavi which include Homage to Sextus Propertius; Publication of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry in The Little Review; Participation in the editorial work of The Dial; Hating British society: Hell Cantos; Meetin with Joyce at Sirmione; Moving to Paris; Meeting with Sylvia Beach; Publication of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (7) Beginnig of japonisme in Paris in 1850's; Japonisme in London in 1860's; London International Exhibition in 1862 and japonisme; Whistler's works in early 1860's and japonisme |