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In 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte art movement produced a set of 12 prints featuring different Variety acts. These Varieténummer – Vaudeville performances – were both madly daring and fanciful. Mac Bull from Philadelphia (Act 11) would drive his car around a rainbow. A. Lucci the Famous Hunger Artist (Act 3) had gone 132 days without … Continue reading "12 Variety Acts by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907" The post 12 Variety Acts by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907 appeared first on Flashbak.
First published in 1961, The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook shares 220 recipes by 55 painters, 61 novelists, 15 sculptors and 19 poets. Dedicated to the art of imperfection in the kithc”, it’s a fun book in which wit and wine feature heavily. American novelist William Styron delivers a six-page-long recipe for Southern fried chicken, … Continue reading "The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook, 1961" The post The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook, 1961 appeared first on Flashbak.
“This is less of a themed group and more just a grouping of odd and unusual color photos,” says photograph collector Robert E. Jackson of this, his latest album of snapshots for flashbak. “I call it: Living Color: Strange Square Snapshots. We’ll being with his gent form the 1960s dressed in a demented flag of … Continue reading "Living Color: Strange Square Snapshots" The post Living Color: Strange Square Snapshots appeared first on Flashbak.
Die Quelle (The Source) is a three-volume series of Secession-style graphic design books created in Vienna by Martin Gerlach’s publishing house. It features surface designs by Carl Otto Czeschka (22 October 1878 – 30 July 1960), Max Benirschke (1880–1961) and Koloman Moser (30 March 1868 – 18 October 1918). These volumes provide colour and gilt … Continue reading "Koloman Moser’s Beautiful Surface Designs For Die Quelle, 1901" The post Koloman Moser’s Beautiful Surface Designs For Die Quelle, 1901 appeared first on Flashbak.
“I do not want to choose between the right and wrong sides of the world, and I do not like a choice to be made. People don’t want one to be lucid and ironic. They say: ‘It shows you’re not nice.’ I can’t see how this follows.” – Albert Camus, The Wrong and the Right … Continue reading "The Wrong Side and The Right Side (of History) – Albert Camus On Being ‘Human and Simple’" The post The Wrong Side and The Right Side (of History) – Albert Camus On Being ‘Human and Simple’ appeared first on Flashbak.
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In 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte art movement produced a set of 12 prints featuring different Variety acts. These Varieténummer – Vaudeville performances – were both madly daring and fanciful. Mac Bull from Philadelphia (Act 11) would drive his car around a rainbow. A. Lucci the Famous Hunger Artist (Act 3) had gone 132 days without … Continue reading "12 Variety Acts by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907" The post 12 Variety Acts by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907 appeared first on Flashbak.
September 11, 1961 So I came across another "stash" of old Weekly Readers that I am going to share for the next few weeks. I have written before how these tiny newspaper appeared in our classrooms every week during the school year (and the summer too). I really love how our progress in the space race was filtered down to school aged children.
Does life have meaning? Brought into the vast and guideless world with a brain bent on understanding, we struggle with randomness and even despise it. Yet the meaninglessness appears repeatedly in art—a desperate attempt to understand, perhaps? In this whirlwind of unpredictability, we like to believe that at least our behavior is something we […]
Hey all, we’re doing a Fireside this week! For this week’s musing, I thought it might be worthwhile – this being a frequent space for military history – to offer a brief outline of professional military education (PME) in the United States, which is to say the various stages by which US officers are academically … Continue reading Fireside Friday, May 30, 2025 (On Professional Military Education) →
Yesterday, after a six-month hiatus, Banksy’s official Instagram account unveiled a new public mural: a small lighthouse on a beige building facade. The mystery of the mural’s location has since been solved. Its intended meaning, however, is still up for debate. Banksy Unveils Latest Mural in Marseille When Banksy posted images of […]
