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Friday, March 1, 2019


"The Anarchist" from 1894 shows both Schneider's ability to depict the male body and the stereotypical view of the time that all anarchists were bomb throwers.

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  1. I like the color contrast between the nicely muscled model and the dark facade of the...temple?

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  2. The oppressed ready to destroy Mammon. -Rj

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  3. Ja, wie Mammon. Eher wie die Moloch im italienischen Epos Cabiria 1914. So symbolisch, dass ein Anarchist kurz davor steht, eine Bombe auf Nebukadnezars Tempel in Babylon zu werfen. Der moderne Mensch zerstort die Fesseln der Vergangenheit.
    -austriche

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