Jihad

"The image of the Reichsminister for Propaganda and Enlightenment, 

Joseph Goebbels, encouraging Mies van de Rohe to tender for prestigious 

regime projects encourages us to 'revisit' the whole subject of Nazism's 

famed jihad against modernism."
Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism, The Sense of Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler, 2007

 Mies van der Rohe - Reischsbank Proposal - 1933

Walter Gropius - Reichsbank Proposal - 1933

Heinrich Wolff - Reichsbank - 1934 - by Gary Catchen

Inventing God

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"

Voltaire, Response to the 'Three Impostors'. 1768

Annie Besant & Charles W. Leadbeater - Plate from 'Thought Forms' - 1902

Naum Gabo - Linear Construction - 1942/43

My Landscape

"People are my landscape"

Isaiah Berlin

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Oreads - 1902

Horace Bristol - Melee in Shinto Temple, New Year's Day - Japan - 1946