The Images of Modern Evil series, painted between 1943 and 1948, offers a probing and powerful insight into the schismatic socio-political climate of World War II and its aftermath. Though neither critically nor popularly successful at the time, the series proved formative in Tucker’s practice as a distillation of humanist, psychological and mythological ideas and as a vehicle for specific motifs and narratives that have endured within his art.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 15, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Evil, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 28, 2021 -
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Category: Medicine, Smoking and Tobacco, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 27, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Family, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 26, 2021 -
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Category: Drugs, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, 1940s
A 1942 contestant told Edwards that her 17 year old son was serving in the Marines - as if Edwards didn’t know this in advance when she was “randomly” selected to appear on the show. Her consequence was to count pennies - pennies mailed to her home by listeners to buy War Bonds for her son. Broadcasting magazine reported within a week that the woman received 301,464 coins, mostly pennies, totaling over $3,100. Variety reported that after ten days the amount of mail had reached 236,000 pieces and the amount was $3,560. To handle the massive amount of mail Edwards temporarily rented office space and hired 200 clerks to pick it up, open it, count the money and track the postmarks to learn where it came from, valuable research for NBC and sponsor Procter & Gamble.
Edwards sent a 1944 contestant on an involved and hilarious search for a thousand dollars that climaxed after a month with listeners mailing 18,000 old books to the man‘s home which were donated to servicemen and veterans’ hospitals - after the contestant was directed to leaf through the books to find the missing half of a thousand dollar bill sent to him by the show.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 25, 2021 -
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Category: Money, Publicity Stunts, Radio, 1940s
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 22, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Advertising, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 02, 2021 -
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Category: Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Children, Books, Fantasy, 1940s, Russia
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 28, 2021 -
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Category: Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Puppets and Automatons, 1940s, Women
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 25, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Unsolved Mysteries, 1940s, North America
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 24, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Burlesque, Exotic Dancing, Stripping and Other Forms of Staged Nakedness, 1940s
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