Articles from New Masses
A review of Martha Graham’s sell-out Broadway performance from January, 1944:
Martha Graham’s art has always been characterized by constatnt experimentation with new forms and new contents.
Martha Graham’s Art (New Masses, 1944) Read More »
The socialist New York magazine The Masses
An Anti-Interventionist Cartoon (The Masses, 1917) Read More »
Although realist painter John Sloan (1871 – 1951) was one of the fortunate American painters to also be included in the 1913 Armory Show (he was also on the organizing committee), it did not mean that he was above ridiculing the European modernists who were enjoying the same prestige that he was.
To read an anti-Picasso review from that same period, click here.
John Sloan Ridiculed Cubism (The Masses, 1913) Read More »
Obergrupenfuehrer Albert Ganzenmüller (1905 – 1996) was responsible for running the German rail roads. This not only involved delivering troops and ordinance to the various fronts but also deporting Jews, Poles, Croats and Slovenes to assorted death camps:
Ganzenmüller’s special contribution to these migrations was his invention of the railroad-car gas chamber to exterminate Jews.
Albert Ganzenmüller (New Masses, 1944) Read More »
Lieutenant K. F. Brandes of the German Army was killed on October 24 [1944] on the right bank of the Dnieper. A diary was found on him. I have seen many diaries of German officers and soldiers… It was written by a clever and educated man. Brandes was a Fascist. He calls the conquest of Europe the ‘German Spring’. Like his colleagues he came to Russia for ‘lebensraum’… But as distinct from other Hitlerites, Brandes saw the limit of his dreams. He faithfully described the disintegration of the German Army, showed the meanness of the men who are still ruling Germany. I will cite the most interesting excerpts from his diary.
‘Confessions of a Nazi Officer” (New Masses, 1944) Read More »
Although not known as a clairvoyant, this 1914 cartoon by the New York artist John Sloan (1871 – 1951) seemed to predict the lousy ending that would play out four years after W.W. I reached its bloody climax.
Anticipating the Distasteful Ending (The Masses, 1914) Read More »
