“The last days of empire are carnivals of folly. We are in the midst of our own, plunging forward as our leaders court willful economic and environmental self-destruction. Sumer and Rome went down like this. So did the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires.” >essay & illustration (c) truthdig.com 2013
Archive for October, 2013
“The Folly of Empire”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, decline, empire, Ottoman Empire, Rome, USA, Wall Street on 13 October 2013 by delclemThe History of VIENNA in 11 parts
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, history, Vienna on 6 October 2013 by delclem
Very helpful educational website. Just click on the link and select one of the languages available: German, English, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, BCS, Slovene, Russian, Romanian. All texts (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Photographer & Soviet spy with a conscience
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Communism, Edith Tudor-Hart, espionage, exhibition, Greta-Britain, London, photography, Soviet Union, Vienna on 3 October 2013 by delclem
“When Edith Tudor-Hart wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking lovingly realistic portraits of London’s workers and street children. Now, for the first time, a retrospective is celebrating her double life.” >full text (c) THE TELEGRAPH, 2013
“A brush with the past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria-Hungary, cultural history, Edmund de Waal, exhibition, Gret Britain, Vienna 1900 on 1 October 2013 by delclem
“Ahead of a major new exhibition of portraits from turn-of-the-century Vienna, the award-winning writer Edmund de Waal reveals his own family’s intimate links to the city.” >full text & photo album (c) THE INDEPENDENT, 2013
Ill. above: Portrait of Empress Elisabeth (1899) by Gyula Benczúr
delirium clemens 