{"id":111414,"date":"2017-06-01T08:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111414"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:06:07","slug":"behind-the-decadence-theres-dust-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/behind-the-decadence-theres-dust-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Decadence, There\u2019s Dust, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111421\" style=\"width: 796px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gustav-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111421\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gustav-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gustav-crop.jpg 786w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gustav-crop-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gustav-crop-768x597.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustav Wunderwald, <i>Br\u00fccke \u00fcber die Ackerstra\u00dfe<\/i>, 1927. Image via <em>Public Domain Review<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We associate Weimar Berlin with Dionysian excess, unfettered lust, and quality drugs, all of which put it at the top of the list of places I\u2019d like to time travel to. But even at its most liberated, city life can\u2019t be all orgies and amphetamines. Someone has to take the garbage out. The painter Gustav Wunderwald, who roamed the streets of Berlin in the 1920s, had a soft spot for its less frenetic corners. His work, with its parade of smokestacks and tenements, has garnered more attention in recent years for its depiction of the city\u2019s sooty splendor. Mark Hobbs writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2017\/05\/31\/gustav-wunderwalds-paintings-of-weimar-berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wunderwald\u2019s oeuvre consists chiefly of landscapes, many of which depict Berlin and its surroundings<\/a>. The gray streets of the city\u2019s working-class areas, to the north of the city center, are just as often depicted as the cleaner, airier streets of the city\u2019s affluent west end. Rural landscapes also figure, including views of Berlin\u2019s lakes and the countryside around the Havel River. Despite the variety of scenes, it is for his depictions of Berlin\u2019s working-class areas that Wunderwald is best known \u2026 Amidst the tenement blocks, factories, smokestacks, and advertising hoardings, Wunderwald found no shortage of subjects to paint. In a letter to a friend, written in the winter of 1926, he wrote: \u2018Sometimes I stagger back as if drunk from my wandering through Berlin; there are so many impressions that I have no idea which way to go.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Guida is reading the novels of Jos\u00e9 Maria de E\u00e7a de Queir\u00f3s, whom you may have heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/staff-picks-crusaders-complaints-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Lorin Stein in our staff picks<\/a>. E\u00e7a, a nineteenth-century Portuguese writer, depicts his nation\u2019s wealthiest milieu with care, acuity, and more than a little cynicism. Guida writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/31\/the-proust-of-portugal-eca-de-queiros\/\" target=\"_blank\">What does E\u00e7a\u2019s Portugal feel like<\/a>? It is dominated by hot sunny days, white trousers, dust, theater tickets and evening strolls in Sintra, roses in buttonholes and glimpses of gowned women getting in and out of coaches, gorgeous landscapes and trees and flowers, hale farmers and country maids, long conversations, cats and singing birds and orchards, pumpkins drying on a station roof, baked sweet rice, and cheese pastries. Furthermore plenty of cognac, white wine, iced champagne, rolled cigarettes, and good cigars. Late in\u00a0<em>The Maias<\/em>, a dish of cold pineapple served with Madeira and orange juice gets sustained attention. In another novel, someone says, \u2018It\u2019s an absolute disgrace, you know. I\u2019ve never once eaten a decent melon here.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scandal has stalked Park Geun-hye, the erstwhile South Korean president. Her fall, as Michelle Cho writes, is emblematic of a deeper corruption in Korean society, one that\u2019s begun to express itself in the country\u2019s films: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/evenmagazine.com\/arrested-development-korean-cinema\/\" target=\"_blank\">Since Park Geun-hye\u2019s convincing election in 2013, the majority of big- and medium-budget productions in Korean cinema have been noir or action thrillers<\/a>. Many explore endemic corruption in Korean society, and particularly collusion between the police, politicians, and organized crime. In films like\u00a0<em>New World<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Inside Men<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Veteran<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Asura: City of Madness<\/em>, <em>Master<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The King<\/em>, all domestic box-office successes produced during Park\u2019s presidency, the characters are drunk on power \u2026 In all of them, South Korea\u2019s postwar economic boom has a dark side. In\u00a0<em>New World<\/em>\u00a0and so many other recent hits, characters find themselves in moral peril by overvaluing surfaces and semblance\u2014above all the surfaces of new real-estate construction \u2026 The primary drama, throughout, is not whether or not crime will be punished or characters will reform themselves. It is, rather, how individuals suffer in a double bind, where unveiling the true coordinates of power leads to catastrophic instability. Social order relies on dissimulation.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ian Ground wonders why people are so dumb about the intelligence of other animals: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/stupendous-intelligence-of-honey-badgers\/\" target=\"_blank\">We have in effect been Darwinists about the animal kingdom but Creationists about the human head<\/a>. This outcome has many causes, including a long and cross-cultural history of deep-seated attitudes towards our place in nature, cross-cut by our pathological denial of our exploitation of other animals \u2026 We\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>smart enough to learn how smart animals are. But you wouldn\u2019t think so from looking at our history of trying \u2026 We systematically underestimate animal complexity. Primates are an obvious central example, and attention is also given to the\u00a0more recent stars\u00a0of animal studies, especially corvids and parrots. But there are plenty of less familiar examples: from zebra fish and moray eels to the stupendous intelligence of the honey badger.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If the honey badger\u2019s not for you, maybe the naked mole rat is. Maybe you should steep yourself in images of the naked mole rat. Maybe, if you\u2019re a teenage boy, you should text your crush a photo of a naked mole rat instead of a dick pic. This, as Alan Burdick explains, is the message disseminated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a charitable organization that wants to curb sexting by substituting a hideous, hairless creature for the ubiquitous penis: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/to-save-yourself-from-sextortion-send-naked-mole-rats-not-nudes\" target=\"_blank\">Last week, on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, [the Centre] began circulating\u00a0a\u00a0ninety-second video\u00a0in which a cheery spokesman in a tweed jacket strolls among typical adolescent males\u2014befuddled, distracted, combing wispy mustaches, sticking smartphones down their pants\u2014and explains that sending compromising photos of oneself can lead to blackmail<\/a>. \u2018It\u2019s extortion, but with <em>sex<\/em> at the beginning,\u2019 he says, brightly. \u2018Sextortion!\u2019 Then, from an auditorium stage, he shows an audience of wide-eyed boys a large photo of a naked mole rat. Why not send that instead? \u2018Long, veiny, and fleshy, the naked mole rat\u2014you can call it Willy\u2014looks a lot like that picture you were just about to send, except it\u2019s got two beady little eyes and four sharp teeth at the tip.\u2019 The P.S.A. ends with a slogan: \u2018Don\u2019t get sextorted, send a naked mole rat.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: a painter explores the less decadent corners of Berlin and a Portuguese novelist gets his due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[1051,9241,6397,1432,29020,29018,27713,27990,22791,29019,29021,13808,3141,8505,19834,28365],"class_list":["post-111414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-animals","tag-artists","tag-berlin","tag-canada","tag-corruption","tag-gustav-wunderwald","tag-intelligence","tag-jose-maria-de-eca-de-queiros","tag-korea","tag-korean-cinema","tag-naked-mole-rats","tag-painters","tag-sexting","tag-south-korea","tag-weimar-berlin","tag-weimar-germany"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gustav Wunderwald Painted the Quieter Side of Weimar Berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: a painter explores the less decadent corners of Berlin; 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