Modris Eksteins in LRB
Voici le temps des assassins,’ Rimbaud announced in the wake of the Paris Commune. One could argue that the central motif in Modernism was the notion of violation: André Breton saying that ‘the simplest surrealist act consists of dashing into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you [...]
13/02/2008
Drowned in Eau de Vie
13/02/2008
Bombing of Dresden
View of wreckage in Dresden, Germany, after fire bombing in World War II Photographer, Richard Peter (1895 – 1977), Created, September(?) 1945 Published, 1949.
The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15, 1945, 12 weeks before the surrender of the [...]
