No.26 July, 2001
 
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of FMTP back numbers FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.21 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 21st installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 12 Stormy Thirties( Section 3- 4, 2nd of 3 parts) <Summary of the Article> Pound's activity as a propagandist of Italian Government: giving talk in the government propagandist broadcast aimed at America in 1935; Pound makes friends with Odon Por, a Hungarian reporter-economist working for Italian Government; Activity to propagate Social Credit in England: Publication of Alfred Venison's poems and Social Credit: An Impact in1935 : Pound's enthusiasm for Silvio Gesell's monetary theory; Pound's attitude toward Abyssinian war; G.K.Chesterton defends the Italian position; Pound's participation as a regular contributor to Italian Government's propagandist paper British-Italian Bulletin; Origins of Pound's fascist inclination according to Zeev Sternhell et al. : Influence of Bergson, Sorell, T.E.Hulme, and Marinetti; Pound's concern for American Politics; Pound and other writer's attitudes toward Spanish Civil War Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (11) Whistler knew his powers, of course, but he was painfully aware of his defect-in drawing, for instance, wrote his architect friend, Frederick Jameson. To improve his drawing skills, he attended evening class in Chelsea. Then he made his debut as a portrait painter with his mother's portrait in 1871. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.22 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 22nd installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 12 Stormy Thirties( Section 5- 6, 3rd of 3 parts) <Summary of the Article> publication of The Fifth Decad of Cantos in 1937; publication of Guide to Kulchur in 1938; Pound and Katue Kitasono and VOU group in Japan; Activities in Rapallo for music concert; study of Vivaldi; Death of Dorothy's mother and return to London; contribution to British fascist paper, British Union Quarterly; increasing anti-semitism; Going to Washington Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (12) In 1871, Whistler established himself as a painter of Thames as well as a portrait painter . The series of the poetical paintings had names Nocturnes.. In these paintings, he experimented repetitions of colors and forming an harmonious pattern on canvas. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.23 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 23rd installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 13 The World War II( Section 1, 1st of 3 parts) <Summary of the Article> The WWII begins; Activity as a propagandist for Italy; Cantos LII-LXXI; Meeting with George Santayana; becomes correspondent for The Japan Times; Italy begins war; Essay: Ezra Pound and the Music of John Dowland In 1933, Ezra Pound was busy with organizing music concerts in Rapallo. Pound and his friends, doing these activities, were forerunners in the rivival movement of the old English music <To Article>. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.24 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 24th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 13 The World War II( Section 2-3, 2nd of 3 parts) <Summary of the Article> Correspondence with Katue Kitasono before the war; Pound on the day of Pearl Harbor described by Tim Redman; Decision to stay in Italy; resolusion to study more of Chinese philosophy; restart of the broadcast; Pound's broadcast edited by Leonard W. Doob Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (13) Whistler and Cremorne Gardens in Chelsea Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.25 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 25th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 13 The World War II( Section 4, 3rd of 3 parts) <Summary of the Article> Dismissal and imprisonment of Mussolini; Pound indicted for treason in the U.S.; Pound's letter to Attoney General Francis Biddle; Italy's withdrawal from the War; Fascists flee to the North; Pound goes to the Italian Tyrol to meet her daughter and returns to Rapallo; Rescue of Mussolini by German and the creation of the Republic of Salo(Italian Social Republic); The Verona manifesto of the Republican Fascist Party; Pound's activity as a propagandist for the Republic of Salo; Move to Olga Rudge's house; Cantos LXXII and LXXIII; Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (14) London's painters as interior designers. Whistler was commissioned by Frederick R. Leyland to decorate his London house; Whistler's friend and architecht Thomas Jeckyll hired by Leyland as a decorator of the dining room. |