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Mad's Dave Berg looks at our sick world
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Alban Berg’s “Guilt” by Association
Alban Berg’s “Guilt” by Association
This chapter examines how Alban Berg plotted to survive as a composer during the Third Reich. Berg’s opera Wozzeck premiered in Berlin on December 14, 1925, and achieved undisputed...
Alban Berg
Alban Berg
When Austrian composer Alban Berg was working on his opera Lulu, he wrote three Baudelaire songs as a Konzertaria entitled Der Wein. Premiered in 1930, Der Wein is a large-scale wo...
"Taken by the Devil"
"Taken by the Devil"
Abstract
The book takes censorship as an entry point into Berg’s Lulu. Beginning in 1894 with the suppression of the Ur-Lulu, Wedekind’s original play, responses to ...
Introduction
Introduction
This introduction reviews the history and biography of David Drake and establishes key questions addressed in the remainder of the collection. The collection as a whole asks: Who i...
Darion McCloud as Dave the Potter
Darion McCloud as Dave the Potter
Johnson investigates the recent award-winning children’s book by Hill and Collier about Dave the Potter, in particular, the illustrated representation within it of the figure of Da...
An Easter Prayer, 1859
An Easter Prayer, 1859
Carla L. Peterson describes her own experience of seeing one of Dave’s pots on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and interprets the Easter imagery in the incised poem, “Goo...
“Who Are the Other Potters? What Are Their Names?”
“Who Are the Other Potters? What Are Their Names?”
This chapter focuses on Theaster Gates’s 2010 exhibition To Speculate Darkly, which puts Gates’s multimedia work in dialogue with Drake. Jarenski’s chapter engages with the theme o...