revived

The cool change came through here after another sweltering night. It happened at 5.32 a.m.: I know because I woke up for it. Then there was thunder and rain at 7.00 a.m.


Because there was no heat to make the city filthy and unbearable to be in, we went to the NGV to see "The mad square:modernity in German Art 1910-1937". It was very interesting - some of the art was fairly confrontational for the teens, and I had to steer/warn daughter about the suicide themed ones ( if you are a long-time reader of this blog you may remember S losing a close friend about 18 months ago). Such an interesting period in the art world, and I kept being reminded of Christopher Isherwood's book Goodbye to Berlin, set in the same time period.

I was greatly taken with the Hannah Hoch photomontages and have been reading about her since we came home. She was the only woman in the Berlin Dadaists and incredibly talented.

After the show we walked into the city and went to both the Foreign Language Bookshop and Minotaur - as requested by the kids. Seriously, Minotaur is just a Big Bang Theory comic book store but so much fun to look at all the things.
Then we had lunch looking down on Centre Place, with some of the other forty million tourists/suburbanites like us in town for the day. The place was seething.



Hannah Hoch art works:
Made for a party (1936) Stuttgart,
Institute for foreign cultural relations;
The coquette I
(1923-25) Stuttgart;
Balance (1925) Stuttgart.