posted 10 March 2003 02:46 PM
Rabble features a review of the major Kathe Kollwitz show at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and its pertinence in terms of contemporary feminism and anti-militarism (one could add socialism and support workers' rights to this list). Have any of you seen this show? Hope I have some reason to travel to Toronto before the closing of the exhibit. http://www.ago.net/info/ago_whats_on/feature_specific.cfm?ID=923
By the way, babble should have an "arts and culture" section. Although Kollwitz's main focus was the "people", I can't see discussing this show in "pop culture".
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posted 11 March 2003 01:30 AM
When I was in university I had friends who favoured Koellwitz and festooned our living quearters with her works. But after much exposure, I began to think her work was mediocre. Too many sad refugees and mothers woebegone about war. I presume, from the content of her work, that she was a member of the German Communist Party. I mean, the same sorts of unremarkable sentiments which also figured in socialist realism were central to her work. She was more or less pre-Stalin, but I find no spark of life in her work, and little creativity.
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