Jenny Farrell – Page 9 – Culture Matters

Waiting for Godot

6 December 2019 / 333

Jenny Farrell discusses Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and its message to us today Great Carthage waged three wars. It was still powerful after the first, habitable still... Continue reading

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Fiction

From the dystopian chaos of the free market to the solidarity of co-operative communism: the Maddaddam trilogy

12 November 2019 / 389

Jenny Farrell discusses Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy Margaret Atwood, who turns 80 in November 2019, has written several novels that explore dystopian situations or circumstances where people are... Continue reading

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Films

The Architects: a film about the reasons for the GDR’s collapse

8 November 2019 / 359

Jenny Farrell discusses The Architects, a film made in 1989/90 which traced the reasons for the collapse of the GDR 30 years ago, on 9 November 1990,... Continue reading

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Cultural Commentary

Gandhi: ‘The worst form of violence is poverty’

7 October 2019 / 405

Jenny Farrell reviews Walk with Gandhi, Bóthar na Saoirse, by Gabriel Rosenstock (Author) and Masood Hussain (Illustrator) Bóthar na Saoirse (Road to Freedom) Walk with Gandhi is a beautiful... Continue reading

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Visual Arts

The revolutionary painting of Rembrandt van Rijn

26 September 2019 / 386

Jenny Farrell marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn with a discussion of some of his dynamic, democratic and deeply humane paintings Rembrandt’s... Continue reading

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Visual Arts

The revolutionary realism of ‘Peasant Bruegel’

31 August 2019 / 341

Jenny Farrell discusses the life and work of ‘Peasant Bruegel’, unearthing the radically subversive protests and criticisms of political domination which are expressed so beautifully in his... Continue reading

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Poetry

Peterloo: the socialist poetry of Shelley, Brecht and Kinsella

26 July 2019 / 414

In the run-up to the anniversary of Peterloo, Jenny Farrell discusses political poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Kinsella On 16 August 1819, tens... Continue reading

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Visual Arts

Anti-war and anti-fascist German art: Otto Dix and George Grosz

1 July 2019 / 403

Jenny Farrell remembers Otto Dix and George Grosz, two German artists whose work was dedicated to the fight against fascism and war The painters Otto Dix and George... Continue reading

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Visual Arts

Gustave Courbet: the working class becomes the subject of art

16 May 2019 / 491

On the 200th anniversay of Gustave Courbet’s birth, Jenny Farrell looks at his revolutionary choice of theme and form, called ‘socialist propaganda’ by his critics A constant... Continue reading

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Music

Happy 100th birthday, Pete Seeger

19 April 2019 / 357

Jenny Farrell honours Pete Seeger as we near what would have been his 100th birthday There are few people more famous in the political song movement than... Continue reading

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