Part of my longtime project A Brief History Of which wants to explore the 20th century culture. As an open curatorial project it grows rhizomatically in various directions. Since 2009 I am assembling a list of works by composers, musicians, writers, philosophers, artists, filmmakers, choreographers and photographers. Next to popular stuff with high artistic impact you´ll find more unknown pieces of avantgarde origin, high next to so called low culture. Gradually the works should be described, interviews should be held and correlations should be researched. Although this project actually must be a work in progress it shall merge into a book and a film.
This is (so far)…
1945
KARL POPPER, The Open Society And Its Enemies
BERTRAND RUSSELL, A history of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
VERA CASPARY, Bedelia („feminist pulp“)
HERMANN BROCH, Der Tod des Vergil
IVO ANDRIC, Na Drini Cuprija (The Bridge on the Drina)
ROBERT BLOCH, The Opener of the way (pulp fantasy)
HENRY HATHAWAY, The Black Rose (novel filmed 1950 with Power and Orwell)
GERTRUDE CRAMPTON & TIBOR GERGELY, Tootle (baby loco, childrens book)
CARLO LEVI, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ stopped at Eboli)
GEORGE ORWELL, Animal Farm
JEAN PAUL SARTRE, L´Age de raison
ELISABETH SMART, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
SAMUEL BARBER, Cello Concerto
GEORGE CRUMB, Four Pieces for violin and piano
BOHUSLAV MARTINU, Rhapsodie Tcheque
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No. 9
RICHARD STRAUSS, Metamorphosen
IGOR STRAVINSKY, Ebony Concerto
CHARLIE PARKER, The Charlie Parker Story (legendary Ko-Ko-Session)
NAT KING COLE, The Trio Recordings (1944-45)
MARY LOU WILLIAMS, Zodiac Suite
DJANGO REINHARDT, Paris 1945
H. L. PARKHURST, Planet Stories, Winter 1945
ELIZABETH SHOUMATOFF, The Unfinished Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
SALVADOR DALÍ, The Basket of Bread
LUCIAN FREUD, Dead Heron
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ, Day of Paris
WEEGEE, Naked City
MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO, Fotografias
MAYA DEREN, A Study in Choreography for Camera
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, Le Retour
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI, Roma, Città aperta
MARCEL CARNÉ, Les Enfants du Paradis
MITSUYO SEO, Momotaro: The Holy Soldier of the Sea (1st feature-length Anime)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK, Spellbound (Ingrid Bergman)
BILLY WILDER, The Lost Weekend
