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Related: 1930s - rise of Hitler

Key work of art: Portrait imaginaire de Sade (1938) - Man Ray

Hitler [...]

Hitler man of the year in Time Magazine
For each of the last 70 years, TIME has presented a Man of the Year--the single person (man, woman, or even idea) who, for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year. --Time Magazine

LSD [...]

1938: Dr. Albert Hoffman, a chemist at Sandoz Laboratories in Basle, Switzerland, synthesizes LSD. Five years later he inadvertently ingests a small amount of it, and observes and reports effects on himself.

Degenerate music [...]

Degenerate Music was a label applied by the Nazi government in Germany to certain forms of music that it considered to be harmful or decadent. The Nazi government's concern for degenerate music was a part of its larger and more well-known interest in degenerate art. In both cases, the government attempted to isolate, discredit, discourage, or ban the works. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_music [Aug 2005]

Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938) - Gaston Bachelard

La psychanalyse du feu / Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938) - Gaston Bachelard [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]

see also: Gaston Bachelard

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