tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post1985296463858750508..comments2024-03-19T21:41:42.835+01:00Comments on Poemas del río Wang: Dear homeland, be quiet!Studiolumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-33348716003426125172013-12-30T20:00:51.045+01:002013-12-30T20:00:51.045+01:00"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in ...<em><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n23/thomas-laqueur/some-damn-foolish-thing" rel="nofollow">"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914"</a></em> by Christopher Clark is thoroughly reviewed in the December 5th London Review of Books (LRB) (free access). I would also recommend his earlier book <em>"Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947"</em>.walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02603255065547405744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-25740607825199928082013-12-29T23:02:30.615+01:002013-12-29T23:02:30.615+01:00Yes, the anthem is directly quoted both on the cov...Yes, the anthem is directly quoted both on the cover of Rikli’s <i>Hurra,</i> and at the beginning of his war adventures, where he is standing guard on the Rhine.Studiolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-66023066918684983832013-12-29T22:52:58.163+01:002013-12-29T22:52:58.163+01:00Wonderful finds, as always! I assume you've d...Wonderful finds, as always! I assume you've deliberately and ironically given a skewed translation of the title, but for those who don't know, "Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein" is the first line of the chorus of the famous patriotic anthem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wacht_am_Rhein" rel="nofollow">Die Wacht am Rhein</a>, and it means "Dear fatherland, you can be calm" or (as the Wikipedia article renders it) "Dear fatherland, put your mind at rest" (because of the brave German lads guarding the Rhine, so the nasty Frenchmen can't sneak across).Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-81313360932336278782013-12-29T15:34:24.263+01:002013-12-29T15:34:24.263+01:00Great, Lloyd! I’m just reading the same book, albe...Great, Lloyd! I’m just reading the same book, albeit in the German translation, and have slipped this passage. It seems that the topic was in the air in this period.Studiolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-51447397932703172632013-12-29T14:43:41.803+01:002013-12-29T14:43:41.803+01:00In a book I am reading about the build up to WWI, ...In a book I am reading about the build up to WWI, I find this passage, curious in light of this post, that suggests that imagining the enemy as 'naughty children' was evidenly also found in the corridors of power:<br /><br /><i>“The fullest account of British grievances can be found in a famous Memorandum on the Present State of British Relations with France and Germany composed by Eyre Crowe, then senior clerk in the Western Department at the Foreign Office, in January 1907. … Crowe endowed the narrative with the contours of a</i> Boy’s Own <i>morality tale. The German bully had threatened France in the hope of ‘nipping in the bud’ her ‘young friendship’ with Britain. But the bully had underestimated the pluck and loyalty of France’s British pal; he ‘miscalculated the strength of British feeling and the character of His Majesty’s ministers’. Like most bullies, this one was a coward, and the prospect of an ‘Anglo-French coalition in arms’ was enough to see him off. …”</i> Excerpt From: Christopher Clark. <i>The Sleepwalkers.</i>Lloyd Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08215855379263509739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-92209947308658183052013-12-29T12:42:39.095+01:002013-12-29T12:42:39.095+01:00It's amazing! I've never seen anything lik...It's amazing! I've never seen anything like this collection, just a couple of images, perhaps. And all of them are from the WWI.<br />Perhaps the first swallow was at the time of the Anglo-Boer war, there were some real boys at war and some photographs of them (and some very popular literary records, as well, like Capitaine Casse-Cou by Louis Boussenard.Gali-Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16686257858855085464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-59547827896829779532013-12-29T11:52:44.751+01:002013-12-29T11:52:44.751+01:00This is very interesting. It seems to support the ...This is very interesting. It seems to support the thesis that the representation of soldiers in the form of sweet babies or little kids was older than WWI, but it was only the mass propaganda starting with WWI which made this motif widely popular. Do you also know other pre-WWI examples? Don’t you know for example whether representations of <a href="http://riowang.blogspot.com/2011/06/killer-game.html" rel="nofollow">the little Russian children soldiers</a> existed before WWI? (since the artist herself was active since the 1890s with similar, albeit civilian, figures).Studiolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-39190426792726006252013-12-29T11:44:57.056+01:002013-12-29T11:44:57.056+01:00Yes, it's Prussian. The information on eBay is...Yes, it's Prussian. The information on eBay is scarce usually. They write Limbach 1900 or Hertwig&co 1900, nothing much. And sadly enough I'm not an expert.Gali-Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16686257858855085464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-71223693507123463922013-12-29T02:21:17.732+01:002013-12-29T02:21:17.732+01:00Rupert, thank you very much, both for your kind wo...Rupert, thank you very much, both for your kind words and for the repost!<br /><br />Thank you, Gali-Dana. It’s a lovely piece, and beautifully presented in your picture. I think it must be a Prussian hussar, as the skull was their badge since Frederick the Great until the end of WWI (see <a href="http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad337/sharpe5/husart.jpg" rel="nofollow">this late 19th-c. figure,</a> for example). But is it (or the other dolls you mention) from the period of WWI?Studiolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-53003156013648175272013-12-28T14:28:19.383+01:002013-12-28T14:28:19.383+01:00I remain in awe of this blog, thank you for such s...I remain in awe of this blog, thank you for such superb quality of content and composition.<br /><br />https://plus.google.com/100146646232137568790/posts/CAzWNz4wL3vRupert Neil Bumfreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04460239805603476978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-76964166179063302352013-12-28T10:44:46.995+01:002013-12-28T10:44:46.995+01:00Perhaps,it'll be of interest to you. There wer...Perhaps,it'll be of interest to you. There were tiny porcelain dolls also representing soldiers as children, that looked very much like these in the books.<br />For example, this is one of the Death's Head Hussars. (I found him in Budapest, by the way).<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/crivelli/2325069296/Gali-Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16686257858855085464noreply@blogger.com