It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
This huge art history website is clearly somebody’s labour of love, but there are no credits - except source links and notes. What I like about it are the extensive galleries of lesser known artists’ works. Some amazing illustrators active in the Art Deco style (1910’s-1930’s) -
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A. adj.
1. Existing or situated beneath the moon; lying between the orbit of the moon and the earth; hence, subject to the moon’s influence.
b. Inferior, subordinate (to). Obs.
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More Josephine Baker trivia: Örnulf (”Ulfven” among friends) Tigerstedt was a Finland-Swedish fascist poet and political activist in the 1920’s and 1930’s. IKL was a small but loud quasi-fascist party on the political scene in Finland in the 1930’s and 40’s. They did not get along:
I wanted authority and heroic achievements and the pack seconded [...]
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Canto novo I, 222 (1882)
Io mi affretto alle pugne. Cavaliero
ignoto in arme brunita cavalco
per la campagna scabra, ma un pensiero
superbo m’arde ne l’occhio di falco.
Guardan le turbe; e - Chi è questo altiero
fanciul che passa? - elle ghignano.
I hasten toward the combat. An unknown
knight in gleaming armour, I ride
across the barren land, with a [...]
I still don’t know how the fold is going to work.