Here is the group " THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS " performing Phil Och's protest song
" ONE MORE PARADE "
BELOW: REPUBLIC AUTOMATONS: GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)
GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST & DADAIST...CHRONICLING
GERMANY'S DESCENT INTO MADNESS
"GREY DAY" BY GEORGE GROSZ
SOLDIER, WORKER, MIDDLE CLASS
PLAYING THEIR ROLES...
"THE AGITATOR " BY GEORGE GROSZ ...APPEALING TO THE WORSE INSTINCTS
RACISM, XENOPHOBIA ,FEAR OF THE OTHER...
OF ALL WHO ARE DIFFERENT & FEAR OF PENDING DOOM &
OF COURSE
FANATICAL NATIONALISM
FUELED BY RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
ABOVE: GEORGE GROSZ SELF-PORTRAIT... " A WARNING "
He described the 1920's in Germany as :
"Everywhere, hymns of hatred were struck up. Everyone was hated: the Jews, the capitalists, the Junkers, the Communists, the army, the property owners, the workers, the unemployed, the black Reichwehr, the control commissions, the politicians, the department stores, and the Jews again. It was an orgy of incitement, and the republic itself was a weak thing, scarcely perceptible. … It was a completely negative world, topped with colorful froth that many imagined to be true, happy Germany before the onset of the new barbarism."
And later in a calculating cynical manner distanced himself from Politics & Social Criticism as he wrote..." To have character generally means that one is distinctly inflexible, not necessarily for reasons of age. Anyone who plans to get ahead and make money would do well to have no character at all. The second rule for fitting in is to think everything beautiful! Everything – that is to say, including things that are not beautiful in reality."
Find more on George Grosz at Olga's Gallery for example . Link in side-bar.
( ALL IMAGES CARE OF PICASA)NEXT POST BUSH REGIME UNDER SEIGE....
TAKE CARE,
GORD.
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